[Bug 11616] UTC began at 1961-01-01T00:00Z, and there is no such thing as proleptic UTC. Therefore the Nero example is ill-defined.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11616

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #5 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-02-25 07:46:01 UTC ---
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Proleptic TAI makes no more sense than proleptic UTC, it really is
proleptic UT1 that we're talking about.

Anyway I've added a paragraph to the spec that discusses this in far more
detail than anyone else is ever going to care about. If it confuses anyone,
though, I'll probably remove it again and not worry about it.

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Received on Friday, 25 February 2011 07:46:03 UTC