[tz] [PATCH 2/3] Replace some zones with links when that doesn't lose non-LMT info.

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Wed Sep 4 19:54:52 UTC 2013


On Wed 2013-09-04T20:43:18 +0100, Lester Caine hath writ:
> >I request caution in making it clear to ordinary users that the name
> >UTC cannot be proleptically extended to dates prior to 1960.
> >No such concept existed in contemporary records.
>
> Being pedantic :)
> 1963 ... But none of the sources actually quote the date for Recommendation 374 :(

I have examined the pages and kept images of that document.
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html

The 10th Plenary Assembly of the CCIR was held in Geneva from
1963-01-15 to 1963-02-16.  During that meeting Recommendation 374 was
approved to supersede Recommendation 319.  Recommendation 374 does not
contain any form of the words "coordination", "coordinated", nor the
letters "UTC".  The text states that the broadcasts of time signals
should "be offset to keep the time pulses in close agreement with UT2"
and "maintained within approximately 100 ms of universal time UT2"
with steps of exactly 50 ms.

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