In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes:

>The committee did not affect the change from mean solar time to UTC.
>If Bush signs, then the US joins France, Germany, the EU, Australia,
>and the rest on the list of countries whose legal time is UTC.

EU is not a "country" and quite a state of confusion reigns with
respect to UTC.  Denmark uses "mean solar time on the 15th eastern
longitude" and Sweden uses GMT (!).

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