On Fri 2011-01-28T22:57:20 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > Civil time is under the control of local government and you have no > business telling any country but your own what their civil time should > or should not be based on.
But for the sake of being able to agree on matters of international commerce and diplomacy most of the countries have joined the SI club by paying dues and submitting themselves to the Meter Convention, and the standing statement from the overseeing body of that is this: http://www1.bipm.org/jsp/en/ViewCGPMResolution.jsp?CGPM=15&RES=5 considering that the system called "Coordinated Universal Time" (UTC) is widely used, that it is broadcast in most radio transmissions of time signals, that this wide diffusion makes available to the users not only frequency standards but also International Atomic Time and an approximation to Universal Time (or, if one prefers, mean solar time), notes that this Coordinated Universal Time provides the basis of civil time, the use of which is legal in most countries, judges that this usage can be strongly endorsed. -- 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
