[LEAPSECS] one second tolerance

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Fri Feb 11 10:29:53 EST 2011


On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Michael Deckers wrote:

>

> Which evidently wasn't worth it. I've heard objections against

> the notation on the grounds that letter suffixes like A and B

> are used in the military, where they denote fixed time zones

> (Alpha for UTC + 1 h, Bravo for UTC + 2 h, ...).


Which amusingly is the exact opposite of the Danish notation :-)

Tony.
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HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND: NORTH BACKING WEST OR NORTHWEST, 5 TO 7,
DECREASING 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 LATER IN HUMBER AND THAMES. MODERATE OR
ROUGH. RAIN THEN FAIR. GOOD.


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