[LEAPSECS] one signature brings UTC to US

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Aug 9 15:20:20 EDT 2007


In message <20070809174403.GA23055 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:

>On Thu 2007-08-09T06:49:55 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:

>> EU is not a "country" and quite a state of confusion reigns with

>> respect to UTC. Denmark uses "mean solar time on the 15th eastern

>> longitude" and Sweden uses GMT (!).

>

>Chaos of this sort could be the reason that some of the Time Lords

>seem to prefer the "easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission"

>philosophy.


... and having talked to politicians about correcting this stupidty,
I'm all for that.

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