[LEAPSECS] ITU-R SG7 to consider UTC on October 4

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

> For starters, the actual change happend in 1958 when the clock

> running the free-of-charge "Fr?kken Klokken" telephone service

> was adjusted to UTC.


Er, no. 1958 was when TAI started. The predecessor of UTC started in 1961.

(Which is not to disagree with your argument that in practice the law
means UTC when it says GMT.)

Tony.
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