On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Clive D.W. Feather wrote: > > From memory, the hourly spacing comes from the Washington Conference, the > same one where basing it on GMT was agreed. But it applied to time zones at > sea, not on land.
I don't remember any discussions at the Washington Conference about restrictions on the scope of their universal time system. As far as I remember, their recommendation was that all countries should adopt the American time zone system of integer hour offsets from UT, as an intermediate step towards everyone using zulu time for everyday purposes. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: SOUTHERLY, BACKING NORTHEASTERLY FOR A TIME, 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
