It seems the meaning of the term Standard time in common-use and in
POSIX is in conflict with the definitions in ISO 8601 and IEC 60050-111.
Wikipedia (not always an authoritative source)
Standard time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time
states:
Where daylight saving time is used, the
On 2014-02-16 01:28 AM, John Hawkinson wrote:
This is not a real conflict.
The standards you cite do not say standard time,
they say things like standard time scale which is parsed as
(STANDARD (TIME SCALE)) not ((STANDARD TIME) SCALE).
etc.
Ah, they are defining standard time, standard time of
In message 5300838b.8030...@edlmax.com, Brooks Harris writes:
It seems the meaning of the term Standard time in common-use and in
POSIX is in conflict with the definitions in ISO 8601 and IEC 60050-111.
It seems to me that a term like Standard time is so vague and
fuzzy that we should naturally
On Feb 16, 2014, at 4:30 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
In message 5300838b.8030...@edlmax.com, Brooks Harris writes:
It seems the meaning of the term Standard time in common-use and in
POSIX is in conflict with the definitions in ISO 8601 and IEC 60050-111.
It seems to
On 2014-02-16 03:30 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message 5300838b.8030...@edlmax.com, Brooks Harris writes:
It seems the meaning of the term Standard time in common-use and in
POSIX is in conflict with the definitions in ISO 8601 and IEC 60050-111.
It seems to me that a term like Standard
On Sun 2014-02-16T09:07:11 -0800, Brooks Harris hath writ:
I wonder why they avoid making clear definitions of Standard time
and Daylight? Is it because previous precedent had already confused
the meanings of the terms, or maybe because they emanate from the
Western world and can't be agreed
On 2014-02-16 09:22 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
On Sun 2014-02-16T09:07:11 -0800, Brooks Harris hath writ:
I wonder why they avoid making clear definitions of Standard time
and Daylight? Is it because previous precedent had already confused
the meanings of the terms, or maybe because they emanate
In US law (see http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/260a ) the time
observed in each time zone is referred to as the standard time, even when
the time is advanced during the summer. Obviously the language of the law
differs from common usage.
Gerry Ashton
On Feb 16, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Brooks Harris wrote:
Only a comprehensive plan which aims to fix the obvious and well known
problems is going to head off the kill Leap Seconds movement.
I think the momentum and general conservatism of the powers that be will do
more to kill the plan than any
On 2014-02-16 10:32 AM, Gerard Ashton wrote:
In US law (see http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/260a ) the time
observed in each time zone is referred to as the standard time, even when
the time is advanced during the summer. Obviously the language of the law
differs from common usage.
On 2014-02-16 10:39 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Feb 16, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Brooks Harris wrote:
Only a comprehensive plan which aims to fix the obvious and well known problems is going
to head off the kill Leap Seconds movement.
I think the momentum and general conservatism of the powers that
There are many timekeeping traditions across many cultures. For most, the move
to mean time and the implementation of hours of uniform length were the breaks
from tradition. A good demonstration of this is Japanese clocks before and
after 1873.
During Pope Gregory's life, there were many
Brooks Harris said:
Wikipedia (not always an authoritative source)
Standard time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time
states:
Where daylight saving time is used, the term standard time typically
refers to the time without the offset for daylight saving time..
That is consistent
On Feb 16, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Clive D.W. Feather cl...@davros.org wrote:
Brooks Harris said:
Where daylight saving time is used, the term standard time typically
refers to the time without the offset for daylight saving time..
That is consistent with my understanding of Standard time.
On 2014-02-16 02:05 PM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Brooks Harris said:
Wikipedia (not always an authoritative source)
Standard time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time
states:
Where daylight saving time is used, the term standard time typically
refers to the time without the offset for
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