On 18 Jan 2014, at 11:28, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > For instance I doubt you'll find any UK politician willing to push > a s/GMT/$whatever/ legislation since that will just feed the UKIP > trolls and become a factor in the Scottish independence referendum.
I'm not sure that's true. The reason why timezones are a cross-border issue is that there is significant support in England for moving to CET, and the perception is that the reason we "can't" is because of "Scottish farmers". Certainly, if Scotland does opt for independence (on current polling and betting it seems unlikely, but let's suppose) the pressure for England to move to CET will increase. There's some confusion as to whether the proposal would be moving the UK to UTC+1/UTC+2 as happened during the last war, or UTC+1 all year around, as happened in the experiment between 1968 and 1971, but on the assumption that the latter would have too many practical problems the former would enjoy widespread support. I don't see why UTC/GMT would have any relation to the Scottish referendum which, in any event, is only 9 months away and will be a dead issue (one way or the other) thereafter. Anyone so red-faced and UKIP-y that the designation of UK legal time as GMT or UTC mattered to them would be a lost cause for any sane political party anyway, so I don't see them mattering. The set of people who would vote Tory but would be tipped over into Farage-ism by the nomenclature for time is not a major political force. ian _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
