In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes: >On Thu 2007-08-09T06:49:55 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: >> 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 (!). > >Chaos of this sort could be the reason that some of the Time Lords >seem to prefer the "easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission" >philosophy.
... and having talked to politicians about correcting this stupidty, I'm all for that. -- 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