On Wed 2012-01-18T18:42:03 +0000, Tony Finch hath writ: > Actually, no, because what the RGO called GMT and what they disseminated > as the official British civil time was the same as UTC from 1972. I expect > a court would take this as indicating that "GMT" should be interpreted as > "what the duly appointed authority (then the RGO, now the NPL) declares to > be the official time".
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