On Aug 10, 2007, at 3:15 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

The EU does translations, but each national government transposes the
Directive into its own legislative system.

This thread is an excellent demonstration of why civil timekeeping legislation should reference an unambiguous natural phenomenon like "mean solar time" :–) As with Carl Sagan's missives to the aliens on the Voyager spacecraft, the natural world is a natural language.

Rob Seaman
NOAO

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