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 (!). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs