[LEAPSECS] Conversational caffeine

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2011-01-28T22:57:20 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:

> Civil time is under the control of local government and you have no

> business telling any country but your own what their civil time should

> or should not be based on.


But for the sake of being able to agree on matters of international
commerce and diplomacy most of the countries have joined the SI club
by paying dues and submitting themselves to the Meter Convention, and
the standing statement from the overseeing body of that is this:

http://www1.bipm.org/jsp/en/ViewCGPMResolution.jsp?CGPM=15&RES=5

    considering that the system called "Coordinated Universal Time"
    (UTC) is widely used, that it is broadcast in most radio
    transmissions of time signals, that this wide diffusion makes
    available to the users not only frequency standards but also
    International Atomic Time and an approximation to Universal Time
    (or, if one prefers, mean solar time),

    notes that this Coordinated Universal Time provides the basis of
    civil time, the use of which is legal in most countries,

    judges that this usage can be strongly endorsed.

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