Re: vive le BIH!

2005-08-26 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,1556764,00.html >>The second is now defined not as the a fraction of a day, and >>therefore an even smaller fraction of a year. It is 9,192,631,770 >>periods of r

Re: vive le BIH!

2005-08-26 Thread John.Cowan
Steve Allen scripsit: > Australia's change to UTC is about to happen. > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,1556764,00.html Another point made in the article, that "GMT" is a conventional name for the U.K.'s LCT, is all too true. Recently I was to take part in a teleconference sc