In message <[email protected]>, Ian Batten wri tes:
>> Sovereign states have some degree of control over civil time; [...] > >Although it's not obvious to me that in the UK, at least, they have any >practical authority over time. The Weights and Measures Act 1985 S.6(1)(c) >makes it clear that they could check clocks [...] The point here is not if the exercise any authority, but if they (could) have it in the first place. Nothing prevents the parliament from passing a law that says all clocks must run backwards if they wanted to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
