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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4C61BD56.9080302 at yahoo.com>, Michael Deckers writes:


>    This I find very hard to believe. I do not think this would be

>    possible in English or German law: if prior written law was

>    superseded it had to be revoked or changed explicitly, paragraph

>    by paragraph.


In theory that is the same in Demark, but we made the constitutional
mistake of not having a body that can enforce that, so the parliament
gets to enforce that themselves, and they don't.

Rule #1: Never start a land-war with Russia

Rule #2: Never forget to add a constitutional court to your
         constitution.


:-)



>    I can see what the European Directive says, regardless of the

>    mindset of European bureaucrats. The Directive is not clear

>    about the time scale, [...]


I am 100% convinced that the EU-court will find that it is painfully
clear that the directive mandates that all countries switch to
summer-time at the exact same moment, relative to the UTC timescale,
simply on the basis that the directive would be pointless under any
other interpretation.

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