TAI zone?

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Fri Jul 1 14:09:59 UTC 2011


Clive D.W. Feather <clive at davros.org> wrote:
>
> Just to make things more complicated, civil time in the UK is GMT
> (approximately UT1) and *not* UTC. So clocks should never have 23:59:60.

De jure yes, but it is de facto UTC. GMT hasn't been maintained for
decades and almost all the UK government-sponsored time signals provide
UTC without DUT1.

The UK government wishes to keep leap seconds.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/uk_policy_on_leap_seconds

Tony.
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