[LEAPSECS] one signature brings UTC to US

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] one signature brings UTC to US
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:49:55 +0000
Message-ID: <1018.1186642195 at critter.freebsd.dk>

Poul-Henning,


> 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.


Especially as the EU translators "think" that GMT == UTC, which it obviously
isn't.


>  Denmark uses "mean solar time on the 15th eastern

> longitude" and Sweden uses GMT (!).


No, Sweden uses UTC + 1h. It is clearly defined in the law from 1979.

Cheers,
Magnus