Do it really matter /what/ timezone you use in Greenland?
According to the CIA factbook, it matters enough that the long but
narrow Greenland is divided into 4 timezones, with the capital UTC -
3. The 56,000 residents enjoy the many benefits of daylight
saving :-) Greenland has a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Seaman writes:
Um - might I just point out that GPS already exists and it is possible
that more people know the brand name GPS than UTC?
It's not a matter of brand recognition, it's a matter of national
laws defining civil time in terms of UTC (or one of it's
civil danish time was fixes as the mean solar time at 15 east long.
Well, I prefer layering civil time directly on mean solar time, since
anybody can recover it directly from the sky -- but as I just
demonstrated, I'm willing to entertain other possibilities like the
two separate ones in
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Seaman writes:
And are you convinced that it would be better for us if the lawmakers
did take notice of our activities? :-)
Well, to be honest, If I have the choice between the kind of cockeyed
but scientifically valid things time-scientists have come up with
