[fitsbits] Re: leap second alert

[Steve Allen]

On 15 Dec 1999 23:49:26 -0500, Maren Purves <m.purves at jach.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>(but: what how much does this still have to do with FITS?)

It was just 2 years ago that the FITS community declared that UTC
shall be used in the value of the 'DATE' keyword.  This decision
was based on the presumption that UTC would remain the most
widely-available timescale for earthbound FITS file writers.