Sorry Magnus, my comment were not related exactly to your question, I know. Mainly I did want to help to clarify a bit wether France does or
not base their official time to UTC. [L'HEURE LEGALE ou l'heure en usage en France se détermine à partir du Temps universel coordonné (UTC). "par le décret du 9 août 1978 qui stipule que "le temps légal est obtenu en ajoutant ou en retranchant un nombre entier d'heures au temps universel coordonné" " etc. ] To remove another questionmark partly: >I suspect several countries (such as US, Germany etc. etc) to be UTC >based, but I do not know for sure. > The german time is fixed by law to MEZ=CET, the Central European Time, which again is fixed by the same law to the Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) as MEZ = UTC+1h. For USA and other countries I don't know, but they have lot of persons who should be informed about... According to the pic showing the time zones (annex: Les fuseaux horaires et les décalages par pays au 1 juin 2000 Crédit: H.M.N.A.O.) most countries are affixed to UTC. That' it, friendly greetings Arnold On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:36:03 +0100, Magnus Danielson wrote: >Arnold, > >Arnold Tibus skrev: >> Magnus and all, >> >> interestlingly the discussion about GMT seem to be a never ending >> story, all over the world. As I know GMT was already renamed in >> the year 1925 ( or 1928 acc. other source ) to UT and >> "universal time coordinated" (U T C) (that) is standard since >> January 1, 1972. acc. "About the Time" : >> >> http://www.fai.org/astronautics/time.asp , >> look into the short overview to this history. >> >> "Does anyone know the exact difference between GMT and UTC?" >> - this question seem to be already very old, Magnus. > >Um. That's not the question I am asking. > >> Richard B. Langley wrote a summary trying to give the right >> answer with "A Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO ". >> >> His article can be found here: >> http://www.apparent-wind.com/gmt-explained.html >> >> It summarizes: >> "The Greenwich mean time, GMT, has today only an historical >> interest. It has been abandoned since the thirties for successively >> the T U 1, the T U 2 and finally, in 1972, for the much more regular >> universal time coordinated, U T C, that must be used >> for all present use." ! >> >> That is what I thought as well quite a while. >> But I had to change ever so often all kind of scientific and >> technical units, and I see the need to adopt it, I am sure we have >> to be open for more steps into the future. Learning will never end...! > >You brings me no new knowledge, only a few more links, which I suspect >repeats what my sources already says to me. > >I already know what GMT is in the several senses it is. For me it is >clearly not UTC, except for the GMT transmissions done by BBC. > >I object to the use of GMT when it should say UTC, they should not be >used interchangeably when talking about international time. > >The question I am asking is really about which is the time-scale >accepted for national time in various countries. > >So far: > >UTC based: France, Sweden >GMT based (UT1?): Great Brittian, Denmark > >I suspect several countries (such as US, Germany etc. etc) to be UTC >based, but I do not know for sure. > >As you see, this is a quite different question then asking about "what >is GMT" or "what timezone is country X". > >Cheers, >Magnus > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
