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by zokier
1407 days ago
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Not astronomers but naval navigators. UTC is direct descendant of time signals broadcast by naval observatories as a companion for their naval almanacs. It ended up as general civil time pretty much because it was there and there wasn't much competition around. Besides when UTC was standardized and adopted in the sixties, software wasn't really much of a concern |
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