Ian Batten said: > 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
Apart from anything else, it would violate EU law. > 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. No, it's the political *impression* that it matters. Politics is mostly about appearances. Look at the unhappy history of the Coordinated Universal Time Bill. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: cl...@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
