Re: GMT - UTC in Australia and elsewhere

2005-02-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Markus Kuhn writes: It seems that apart from the English versions, they all use an equivalent of either the French temps universel (universal time) or the German Weltzeit (world time). Oddly, of the ones I checked, only the Danish version explicitely mentiones UTC.

Re: GMT - UTC in Australia

2005-02-23 Thread Rob Seaman
Steve Allen writes: Australia has decided to redefine its legal time scale. http://abc.net.au/science/news/space/SpaceRepublish_1307267.htm The last line in the article implies other jurisdictions are doing the same. The exact text of the laws would be interesting in order to see whether they

Re: GMT - UTC in Australia

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Allen
On Tue 2005-02-22T18:27:36 -0800, Steve Allen hath writ: Australia has decided to redefine its legal time scale. The bill was introduced today. Details of Bill 11 are found here. http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/isys/isyswebext.exe?op=geturi=/isysquery/irl66ce/1/doc/#hit1 The text of