[LEAPSECS] one signature brings UTC to US

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Aug 9 02:49:55 EDT 2007


In message <20070809054240.GA19351 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:


>The committee did not affect the change from mean solar time to UTC.

>If Bush signs, then the US joins France, Germany, the EU, Australia,

>and the rest on the list of countries whose legal time is UTC.


EU is not a "country" and quite a state of confusion reigns with
respect to UTC. Denmark uses "mean solar time on the 15th eastern
longitude" and Sweden uses GMT (!).

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