Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20060704235035.GA17522_at_ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:
>
>> In the middle of May some text about legal time in the US was
>> introduced into a US Senate bill regarding funding for NSF and NIST.
>> See section 508 of S.2802 introduced 2006-05-15, e.g.
>> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2802:
>
> `(b) COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME DEFINED- In this section,
> the term `Coordinated Universal Time' means the time scale
> maintained through the General Conference of Weights and
> Measures and interpreted or modified for the United States
> by the Secretary of Commerce.'.
>
> That could sound like the drilling of a loophole :-)
It could just be intended to allow for the distinction between
UTC(NIST) and postal UTC.
Ed.
Received on Wed Jul 05 2006 - 01:48:35 PDT