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Re: Predictable Internet Time

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 03 January 2017 19:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: Predictable Internet Time
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
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On 1/3/2017 10:39 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu
> <mailto:touch@isi.edu>> wrote:
>
>     +1
>
>     You can deny the ITU all you want, but we are not in control of
>     the time
>     standards used by financial, governmental, etc. systems.
>
>
> ​Neither is the ITU. The governments, financial services etc are.

They nearly universally use UTC, which is managed by the ITU. Many
countries contribute their national time references to the TAI average,
to which the ITU adds leapseconds to derive UTC.

FWIW, GPS uses TAI and broadcasts the delta to UTC in its messages, and
even TAI messages are indicated in reference to UTC.

Joe

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