Having observed that the legal discussions here center so exclusively on
the time legislations of merely two countries (GB, US), I just felt the
sudden urge to make available a proper English translation of the German
Time Act of 1978 in its current revised form:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/t
Steve Allen wrote:
> ...
> Basically, as a result of this case it has been established that the
> law in the United States must be in the public domain, and this holds
> true even if the law incorporates an external document merely by
> reference. So, if NIST tries again to modify the US Code in
An earlier thread in LEAPSECS raised the possibility of correcting the
eventual full day discrepancy between TI and UT1 by modifying the
Gregorian calendar. I have checked with the local expert on the
stability of the solar system and he also handed me a relevant book.
The bottom line on the stab
