[LEAPSECS] final report of the UK leap seconds dialog

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Feb 6 08:51:10 EST 2015


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In message <20150206134600.GL61322 at davros.org>, "Clive D.W. Feather" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>> The specification of local time is in (super-/sub-)national 
>> legislation.
>> 
>> In EU it is in the directive about Daylight Savings Time.
>
>No, all that says is when the offset gets changed. It doesn't specify an
>offset.

You're right: it is the national legislation in drives which has
the actual UTC offset.


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