<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I expect other countries specify something similar, though I don't know of any offhand.</blockquote></div><br>In Russia, the official time scale is UTC (SU) maintained by the National Research Institute for
Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements (<a href="http://www.vniiftri.ru/index.php/en">http://www.vniiftri.ru/index.php/en</a>). For all practical purposes UTC (SU) is the same as UTC because the difference between the two scales does not currently exceed 10 ns and expected to become smaller as time measuring equipment improves.</div></div>