On 10 Apr 2011 at 22:08, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > UTC *is* the timescale that has been legislated already.
In some places. Others stick with "Greenwich Mean Time" or something else based on solar time at some meridian, while some don't even seem to be sure of what they're basing their time standard on (there are some laws/regulations/standards documents that have versions in multiple languages that actually say UTC in some of them and GMT in others). The places that do use UTC as their official standard most likely do so because it's "good enough for government work" as an approximation of GMT. It would be a big "bait and switch" to suddenly plunge those places onto a time standard that isn't moored in any way to solar time. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
