On Sat 2007-07-28T07:40:02 -0700, Peter Vince hath writ: > Atlantic, but I had a look anyway. Quite large documents, but I couldn't > find much about time - apart from timezone definitions - what were you > trying to show us?
I don't know why the Thomas service refuses to provide links which are valid for more than a few minutes, but the only way to get to the actual bill text is to go there and drill in with the temporary links that they provide. HR 2272, Title IV (NIST) 'Sec 2 (Metric system defined) (4) Modifies the 1918 Calder Act which is 15 U.S.C. 264 and adds section '(b) which defines UTC for the sake of the US. The original 1918 Calder act specified "mean astronomical time". Enforcement of that act was suspended within a couple of years until sufficient chaos had been wrought that congress acted again. When it was amended to standardize time zones and daylight savings in 1966 congress had been informed that there was more than one sort of mean time in astronomy, so the current text reads "mean solar time". -- Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
