In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:53 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote: > >> It is NOT CALLED "daylight saving" and it is NOT saving any daylight.
I don't know where you are, but in Denmark we gain close to 60 minutes extra daylight per day except for june/july, so we do in fact "save the daylight for better use". >> It is "summer time". > >Ok, then. Anybody have a suggestion for a general term for which >daylight saving and summer time are special instances? Well, local languages have their private definitions, in Denmark it is summertime/wintertime. >> The Danish version talks about UTC, which is cute since in Denmark >> legal time is still mean solar time at the Copenhagen Observatory, > >How does this work in practice? Lots of web hits show Copenhagen in >the Central European Timezone, one hour ahead of Greenwich (ignoring >the whole summer time issue). Its longitude appears to be 12.66 >degrees east, or 50 minutes ahead. Of course we use the same time as everybody else around us, (UTC + 1h/2h) but legally that is approx 14 minutes and 33 seconds wrong. In all likelyhood, a lawyer would point to some international convention or other about time (the meter convention, or some UN/ITU related thing) which has superseeded the old law, but on the book, it is wrong. -- 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.
