[LEAPSECS] ISO 8601 Z designator improper before 1972?

[Richard B. Langley]

Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>:


> In message <625029C6E1F142B688CEBEDECDFAD8C9 at grendel>, "Gerard Ashton" writes:

> 

> >Similarly, within ISO 8601, "Z" designates "UTC" and any meaning it may

> >have had for most of the 20th century outside that standard is irrelevant.

> 

> The meaning 'Z' had before ISO8601, and which ISO8601 codified, was "UTC".

> 

> If you look at the Canadian time-station CHU's QSL card:

> 

> 	http://flickr.com/photos/bneely/223853969/

> 

> You will notice that the timezones have letters on the illustration

> on the wall.  It is not clear to me if the zero meridian have 'N' or

> 'Z' as designator.


Neither. It is "M." I have a scan of a B&W photo of the painting if anyone is
interested.
-- Richard Langley


> The painting is supposed to despict a meeting in 1879 where Sandford

> Flemming first laid out his idea for timezones.

> 

> Poul-Henning

> 

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