In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Seaman writes:
On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:53 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
It is NOT CALLED daylight saving and it is NOT saving any daylight.
I don't know where you are, but in Denmark we gain close to 60
minutes extra daylight per day except for june/july, so we
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From: Rob Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] BBC - Leap second talks are postponed
On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:53 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
It is NOT CALLED daylight saving
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ed Davies wrote:
On the other hand, I rather snigger at the reservation of the
word universal to mean time based on the Earth's rotation.
It's all rather parochial but it is the established terminology.
Doesn't Universal hint at the join of the SI second and Solar Time?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Bunclark writes:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ed Davies wrote:
On the other hand, I rather snigger at the reservation of the
word universal to mean time based on the Earth's rotation.
It's all rather parochial but it is the established terminology.
Doesn't Universal
John.Cowan said:
GMT is, unfotunately, widely used to mean the time in Britain
during winter.
Indeed, it is sometimes used to mean that even in the summer. There was
some confusion in my company last year about a teleconference scheduled in
GMT which turned out to actually refer to British
Ed Davies scripsit:
GMT is, unfotunately, widely used to mean the time in Britain
during winter.
Indeed, it is sometimes used to mean that even in the summer. There was
some confusion in my company last year about a teleconference scheduled in
GMT which turned out to actually refer to British
