In message 20100809104622.gc32...@davros.org, Clive D.W. Feather writes:
Poul-Henning Kamp said:
and we have a constitution for Denmark that has
relevant wording in it.
Pardon me for being confused, [...]
In Denmark the parliament reigns supreme, (Note to constitutional
writers: This is a
Steve Allen wrote:
Listen to the BBC. Many of the readers will announce that it's
X o'clock GMT when that means X o'clock British Summer Time.
BBC World Service announces X o'clock Greenwich Mean Time and really
means GMT. (The immediately preceding pips are synchronised to UTC,
not GMT, but
Steve Allen wrote:
The way that zoneinfo is structured gives
the impression that POSIX systems (and anything which handles local
civil time in a roughly equivalent way) could handle such a name change,
Zoneinfo doesn't model the differences between flavours of UT, or
In message 4c607952.2090...@yahoo.com, Michael Deckers writes:
They ratified the EU directive in a Danish law, most recently
(http://retsinformation.w0.dk/print.aspx?id=22064) which defines
that DST (sommertid) starts 02:00 (local time) (etc).
I am confused: there is no time scale
In message: 20100809222912.gb8...@ucolick.org
Steve Allen s...@ucolick.org writes:
: The Debate over UTC and Leap Seconds
:
: is the title of a paper from the AIAA last week with contribution
: from P. Kenneth Seidelmann
:
: It is probably the most comprehensive publicly-available
On Mon 2010-08-09T19:40:18 -0700, Steve Allen hath writ:
On Mon 2010-08-09T17:32:47 -0600, M. Warner Losh hath writ:
When the law says Mean Solar Time, and there's a number of different
ways to compute a mean solar time, which mean solar time is the law of
the land? UT1? The noisier UT2?
On Aug 9, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Michael Deckers wrote:
The text of European Directive 2000/84/EC of 2001-01-19 is
issued by the EU in 22 languages, all with equal standing.
For the time scale determining the beginning and end of
summer time, these translations refer to:
-- Greenwich
