In message <20060704.235451.1683993968.imp_at_bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
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>: That could sound like the drilling of a loophole :-)
>
>As has been pointed out in the past, the Secretary of Commerce has had
>the ability to define mean solar time to mean UTC (or something else,
>if they felt the urge)... I think this is just another attempt to
>keep their options open, like they have now...
Yes, and no, mean solar time is something you measure whereas UTC
is an international standard from a UN body which USA has ratified,
so it makes sense to "modify and interpret" mean solar time, but
not UTC.
But yes, likely as not, this is not a black helicopter job, but
rather sloppy or uninformed text-processing.
Poul-Henning
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Received on Tue Jul 04 2006 - 23:09:37 PDT