[LEAPSECS] Back to Basics

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2010-11-03T18:22:16 +0000, Tony Finch hath writ:

> That is very strange wording, given that UTC is specified by the ITU-R but

> only endorsed by the CGPM. Is it that the BIPM has a lot of operational

> responsibility for UTC, and they are an agency under the authority of the

> CGPM?


Remember that the standing CGPM resolution says that UTC is
mean solar time.
http://www1.bipm.org/jsp/en/ViewCGPMResolution.jsp?CGPM=15&RES=5

So is this a tacit acknowledgment that this new US law was intended to
be conformant with the previous law wherein congress explicitly
specified that US legal time was mean solar time?

Again we would need judge and jury to answer.

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