In the USA: ``15 USC § 261 - Zones for standard time; interstate or foreign commerce
``(b) Coordinated Universal Time defined ``In this section, the term “Coordinated Universal Time” means the time scale maintained through the General Conference of Weights and Measures and interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce in coordination with the Secretary of the Navy.'' So Congress basically delegated the actual time to Commerce (i.e., NIST) and the Navy (i.e., the USNO). But their intent is to use UTC as the official time in the USA ... offset, as noted in other sections of the law, in each official time zones. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/261 et al -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
