Re: [LEAPSECS] two world clocks

From: John Cowan <jcowan_at_REUTERSHEALTH.COM>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:17:14 -0500

Joseph S. Myers scripsit:

> 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.

Chauvinism and nothing but. The English remain suspicious of any locution where
an adjective appears after its noun (unless indeed it is hallowed by centuries
of tradition, as in the case of "attorney-general").

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