[LEAPSECS] one second tolerance

[Mark Calabretta]

On Wed 2011/02/09 08:56:21 -0000, Ian Batten wrote
in a message to: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs at leapsecond.com>


>Microsoft Exchange meeting invitations say things like

>"GMT: London, Edinburgh, Lisbon", and then contain local timestamps

>corrected for daylight savings.  They do that all year round.

>Whatever the timezone in London is in July, one thing it certainly

>_isn't_ is GMT.   They mean "clock on the wall time in places where

>the civil time is UTC or UT1 during the winter".  Extra fun will


Microsoft gets it wrong?  Never!  Surely it must be user error.

Regards,
Mark Calabretta