On Wed 2010-12-22T18:46:56 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > Broadcast time *IS* civil time, it is broadcast as a service to civilians. > > Take Germanys DCF77 as example: > > DCF77 is the official legal time of Germany[1].
By transmitting timestamps which are not UTC DCF77 is not in conformance with ITU-R TF.460. In constrast, WWV and WWVB do transmit UTC, but nowhere in any US jurisdiction is that the legal civil time. And POSIX chooses not to conform with ITU-R TF.460. So the rules are subject to arbitrary interpretation by sovereign entities in order to serve their own historical/legal/practical purposes. There is no evident international authority to which computer implementations can conform without risk of flame war. Anybody can defensibly claim justification for doing anything they want. -- 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
