Refl: Mulai musim dingin 2011, Rusia tidak lagi menyesuaikan jamnya dengan waktu musim dingin dan musim panas, jadi tidak perlu menyetel lonceng sejam ke belakang atau sejam ke muka.Ketentuan ini dikemukakan oleh presiden Rusia.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/britain-ticked-off-over-new-time-plan-20111104-1my8x.html Britain ticked off over new time plan Marie-pierre Ferey, London November 4, 2011 Old time: London's Big Ben. Photo: Reuters LEADING scientists from around the world have started meeting to consider a proposal that could eventually see Greenwich Mean Time relegated to a footnote in history. For more than 120 years, GMT has been the international standard for timekeeping, but it is now under threat from a new definition of time itself based not on the rotation of the Earth, but on atomic clocks. In January 2012, the International Telecommunication Union will meet in Geneva to vote on whether to adopt the new measure, despite protests from Britain. Advertisement: Story continues below The two-day meeting of about 50 experts at a country house north-west of London, under the aegis of the prestigious Royal Society, started overnight. Predictably the question has hurt Britain's national pride - particularly when Britons believe their old rival France is leading the push to change away from GMT to the new time standard. ''We understand that in Britain they have a sense of loss for GMT,'' said Elisa Felicitas Arias, director of the time department at the France-based International Bureau of Weights and Measures, which pushed for the change. GMT is based on the passage of the sun over the zero meridian line at the Greenwich Observatory in south-east London, and became the world standard for time at a conference in Washington in 1884. France had lobbied for ''Paris Mean Time'' at the same conference. In 1972 it was replaced in name by Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC) but that essentially remained the same as GMT. UTC is based on about 400 atomic clocks at laboratories around the world but then corrected with ''leap seconds'' to align itself with the Earth's rotational speed, which fluctuates. The meeting will look at the implications of abolishing the leap seconds and moving fully to atomic time. AFP Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/britain-ticked-off-over-new-time-plan-20111104-1my8x.html#ixzz1clIWxSuK [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
