[LEAPSECS] Yet another time scale

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Tue Aug 10 22:47:05 EDT 2010


"The clock will run on Arabia Standard Time which is three hours ahead
of GMT."

This rather reminds me of the "Biel Meridian" representing Swatch
Internet Time (which was simply UTC+1). It was a big red line painted on
the Swatch factory in Biel, considerably west of 15°E.

-- Ashley

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 19:35 -0700, Tom Van Baak wrote:

> You knew this was coming eventually...

>

> <http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Mecca+super+clock+threatens+call

> +time/3382873/story.html>

>

> /tvb

> http://www.LeapSecond.com

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