Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>: > In message <625029c6e1f142b688cebedecdfad...@grendel>, "Gerard Ashton" writes: > > >Similarly, within ISO 8601, "Z" designates "UTC" and any meaning it may > >have had for most of the 20th century outside that standard is irrelevant. > > The meaning 'Z' had before ISO8601, and which ISO8601 codified, was "UTC". > > If you look at the Canadian time-station CHU's QSL card: > > http://flickr.com/photos/bneely/223853969/ > > You will notice that the timezones have letters on the illustration > on the wall. It is not clear to me if the zero meridian have 'N' or > 'Z' as designator.
Neither. It is "M." I have a scan of a B&W photo of the painting if anyone is interested. -- Richard Langley > The painting is supposed to despict a meeting in 1879 where Sandford > Flemming first laid out his idea for timezones. > > Poul-Henning > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | 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 > =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley E-mail: l...@unb.ca Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ =============================================================================== _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
