Magnus Danielson said: >> However, there isn't a problem: Sweden switches from UTC+1 to UTC+2 at >> 01:00:00 GMT (which is somewhere between 01:59:59 and 02:01:01 local time). > You are even missing the point. It was also prepared by the Swedish Govrement, > and I think they had their law-text written up as they wished it to be. > > It *IS* UTC and switches on UTC time. > > Don't complain on the Swedish realization and laws, complain on the > incompetent > translators of EU instead. You are barking up the wrong tree here!
No, I'm afraid you are. The Directive clearly states that the transition happens *throughout the EU* [1] at 01:00 GMT. The Swedes can't pick a different time to make the change, no matter what their local time is [2], any more than they could pick a different date or do it at 03:00 GMT. This is not a translation error. If the Swedish transposition of the law is wrong, then it's wrong. It wouldn't be the first time a national government has failed to transpose a Directive correctly (I've got a 6-year-and-counting argument with the UK Government over a far more serious mis-transposition). [1] Except overseas territories. [2] It's curious that there's no Directive covering the definition of time. Perhaps I should talk to one of my Commission contacts. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 THUS plc | | _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
