[LEAPSECS] one signature brings UTC to US

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Fri Aug 10 07:02:05 EDT 2007


David Malone said:

>> From 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall begin, in every Member

>> State, at 1.00 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday in March.

>

> I think I remember discussing this with Poul-Henning before. The

> English version of the directive only says when summer-time begins

> and ends on the GMT clock. It doesn't say anything about what clock

> is actually used for cival time, just when that clock goes back and

> forward.

>

> I would guess that the wording in other languages is similarly

> cautious.



>From my skim of all 20 versions this morning, they all say exactly the same

(except for the GMT/UT/UTC question).

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