Re: [LEAPSECS] two world clocks

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_PHK.FREEBSD.DK>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:09:32 +0100

In message <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501211747030.16552_at_digraph.polyomino.org.uk>, "Josep
h S. Myers" writes:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> instead of in front of it. As a Dane that sounds smart because
>> time in Denmark is still not UTC based but based on "mean solar
>> time" because our parliament has not gotten around to fix it in
>> the last 46 years.
>
>Which just makes it the more curious that the Danish language version of
>the last Summer Time Directive
><http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=da&numdoc=32000L0084&model=guichett>
>specifies the start and end times of summer time in UTC, whereas the
>English language version
><http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32000L0084&model=guichett>
>says Greenwich Mean Time.

Who said anything about being consistent ? :-)

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