On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> wrote:
Given the unclear outcome of the ITU-R process I recommend stability rather than change for this issue, at least until the outcomes from RA-15 and WRC-15 are known.
I was under the impression WRC-12 was discussing a proposal to eliminate leap seconds, redefining UTC, and that is what was tabled to the WRC-15 agenda. Potential changes to the UTC standard do not seem relevant when discussing the use of both "GMT" and "UTC" in the same definition of a field in the tz file format. Theory states: To represent this data, the world is partitioned into regions whose clocks all agree about time stamps that occur after the somewhat-arbitrary cutoff point of the POSIX Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC). For each such region, the database records all known clock transitions, and labels the region with a notable location. This implies to me that "utc" should be used in the field name, to match the existing definition next to it which states "UTC". -Andrew