Ian Batten <[email protected]> wrote: > > If people wish to argue that the '78 Act requires GMT (and, note, the > act only relates to the interpretation of other legislation, not to > civil contracts or "what your watch says") then that's fine, but the > natural interpretation of GMT in 1978 would be the historic GMT with > rubber seconds.
Actually, no, because what the RGO called GMT and what they disseminated as the official British civil time was the same as UTC from 1972. I expect a court would take this as indicating that "GMT" should be interpreted as "what the duly appointed authority (then the RGO, now the NPL) declares to be the official time". Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Biscay, FitzRoy: Mainly westerly or southwesterly, 4 or 5 in south, 5 to 7 in north. Moderate or rough. Rain. Moderate or poor. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
