[LEAPSECS] "China move could call time on GMT"

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4F063FB6.20506 at comcast.net>, Gerard Ashton writes:


>People involved in government and international organizations sometimes 

>have strange ways of deciding what their duties are.


I am pretty sure USAnian politics would be even funnier of "Some
shady UN agency tries to dictate how we set our Patriotic American
Clocks"


:-)


National timekeeping is not covered by ITU-R's mandate, and that's
the end of that.  To the extent ITU-R work impacts national timekeeping,
those nations duly appointed representatives have the option of
voting against, for that reason.

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