[LEAPSECS] POSIX and C (Was: Re: ISO Influence)

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ian Batten said:

> The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to the UK.  MSF broadcasts legal  

> UK time, summer time corrected when it in force.

[...]

> you can recover UTC all year around by subtracting one hour when  

> appropriate.


Um, those two statements are contradictory. UK legal time is GMT (i.e. UT),
*NOT* UTC.

Checking, I see that MSF transmits UTC but also encodes DUT1, so you can
derive UK legal time by looking at bits 01B to 16B and *58B.

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