Mostly for the US residents, but in the first case for some beyond
the national borders, I relay two links of interest.
In response to a document created by its Division of Dynamical
Astronomy the American Astronomical Society has formed a committee to
make recommendation to the ITU-R.
http://www.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes:
>In the middle of May some text about legal time in the US was
>introduced into a US Senate bill regarding funding for NSF and NIST.
>See section 508 of S.2802 introduced 2006-05-15, e.g.
>http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2802:
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes:
:
: >In the middle of May some text about legal time in the US was
: >introduced into a US Senate bill regarding funding for NSF and NIST.
: >See section
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:
>: That could sound like the drilling of a loophole :-)
>
>As has been pointed out in the past, the Secretary of Commerce has had
>the ability to define mean solar time to mean UTC (or something else,
>if they felt the urge)... I think thi
