On Mar 12, 2016, at 5:00 PM, J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com> wrote:
Any latitude could have been chosen as the universal reference, that wouldn't make its geographic origin disappear.
But that means that the particular longitude chosen as the universal reference has no Deep Significance.
What is your solution? How should the UTC _file_ be cataloged in the zone tables?
At the top level, not under any continent, or even under Etc.
What coordinates should the entry have?
None. It's not intended to be local time for a particular location.
What CC should be used?
None.
The answers are obvious once you recognize that UTC does have a geographic origin.
I recognize that UTC: http://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/tf/R-REC-TF.460-6-200202-I!!PDF-E.pd... happens to be a time offset from TAI by a number of seconds "to ensure approximate agreement with UT1", and that UT1 is "{the mean solar time of the prime meridian obtained from direct astronomical observation} corrected for the effects of small movements of the Earth relative to the axis of rotation (polar variation)". I do *NOT* recognize that it is a form of European time, and therefore should have the continent of Europe associated with it; for one thing, the prime meridian cuts through Africa as well.