[LEAPSECS] Trying a different angle

[Rob Seaman]

> civil danish time was fixes as "the mean solar time at 15 east long."


Well, I prefer layering civil time directly on mean solar time, since  
anybody can recover it directly from the sky -- but as I just  
demonstrated, I'm willing to entertain other possibilities like the  
two separate ones in the two preceding messages.

The problem with the wording above is that it should be two separate  
assertions, something like "civil time is layered on mean solar time"  
and "the Danish realization of civil time should reference the  
meridian 15 east".   The interpretation of your civil servant that NTP  
is disallowed sounds bogus to me since the transport mechanism for  
realizing the law(s) is (wisely) left as a matter of interpretation.