Gerard Ashton said:
A secular change to civil time that would be perceptible without the aid
of a clock has
never been introduced,
How about those places that moved timezone permanently.
Actually, without a clock, how would you *ever* know that civil time had
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in exactly this form. See table 6, page 32, of:
http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf
This, of course, implies that SI-based- is the same as TAI-.
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Standard (and, again by
reference, Posix) to only allow 61 seconds per minute at most.
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that the model actually
comes close to reality ...
We did it with the concept of money.
... or, in the case of an invented concept like money, the model was
improved so as to be more useful (banking and electronic money supports a
more efficient economy than barter).
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for
this year for many places. It's almost impossible to determine it for (say)
200 years ago for almost anywhere.
This is *nothing* to do with what the underlying time scale is. Tony has it
right: you have things completely backwards.
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. In Israel the forward shift occurs at 2am on a
Friday. Iraq and Jordan make the changes on Friday, while Egypt moves
forward on Fridays and back on Thursdays, in both cases at midnight. Chile
changes on Saturdays.
Etc.
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Australian), justification
is a defence. Truth is often, but not always, justification.
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. UT),
*NOT* UTC.
Checking, I see that MSF transmits UTC but also encodes DUT1, so you can
derive UK legal time by looking at bits 01B to 16B and *58B.
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and Manner as is now used with
| respect to every fourth Year of our Lord.
or in those countries conforming to Inter Gravissimas:
| idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
| quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
It's a leap year.
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.
The first use of leap days I'm aware of was around 46 BCE. Before that
the standard approach was leap months of between 20 and 30 days.
We went from random local timescales to UT[C] with 24 standardized
timezones.
24?
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years hence!
Actually, 24 Geo.2 c.23 includes a table that applies up to 8599 A.D.
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and official clock time
were about 7800 seconds apart. It was quite curious being near the tropics
and yet at 08:30 the sky was still dark.
Yet the residents seem to cope quite happily without their world coming to
an end.
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Finkleman, Dave said:
My colleague, Sal Alfano, included in distribution observes with
relevance that the state of Indiana in the U.S., legislated that Pi=3
No, they didn't.
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is why 1751, not 1752, was the shortest year).
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, certain specific courts, common land openings and closings,
due dates of payments, birthdays,
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through Antarctica. Silly me.
There's an implied and no other countries in there.
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of this Directive.
So no, clocks in Denmark would be firmly in lockstep with clocks
in the rest of the EU.
Except for the difference between those clocks in states following GMT and
those in states following UTC.
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of
1 or even 5 seconds (but not 30) is far more useful than no data.
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Poul-Henning Kamp said:
It would have been even better to write:
An ISO C time_t timestamp.
ISO C doesn't define the type, format, or meaning of time_t - it can even
be floating point or (IIRC) a structure.
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But what would matter is that time_t on my machine and yours might be
completely different. On yours it might be a floating point version of the
POSIX value, while on mine it might be Julian date, using fractions to
represent the time of day.
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of the month on one side of the line or just after noon
on the last day of the preceding month on the other side.
Except New Zealand is, I believe, in zone +13 at this time of year. So it
was 12:59:60 on 1 January.
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John Cowan said:
Clive D.W. Feather scripsit:
I don't think that R. v Haddock on the meaning of general purposes is
settled law in the UK,
Doubtless not. But, if you will, remind us just which piece of jolly
ligitation that was? There were so many of them
Drinking is not a general
it
minimized the risk of religious riots and/or pogroms.
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polynomial to some
data without looking at the results (electrical efficiency was swinging
between -300% and +400%).
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about 6 hours before.
But MSF reports UTC, not civil time (GMT).
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is in the same time zone).
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Brian Garrett said:
No crappie. We're starting to flounder here and it's giving me a
haddock.
You're trying to bait us just for the halibut, and we're not gonna hake it.
Rather than casting any more barbs, cod we please return this discussion to
its proper plaice?
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Rob Seaman said:
After all, Princeton is in New Jersey and Watson and Crick reverse
engineered DNA (three billion years of design by the ultimate
committee) over bitters at the Eagle in Cambridge.
A much over-rated pub, in my opinion. There are better places on King
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FI SV)
6 using universal time (ES DE FR IT NL PT)
1 using universal time (GMT) (PL)
2 using UTC (DA SL)
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exactly the same
(except for the GMT/UT/UTC question).
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covering the definition of time.
Perhaps I should talk to one of my Commission contacts.
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with it.
Not so, since the Swedish government have accepted the Directive.
However, there isn't a problem: Sweden switches from UTC+1 to UTC+2 at
01:00:00 GMT (which is somewhere between 01:59:59 and 02:01:01 local time).
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-synchronized)
NTP and funding atomic clocks located at the LINX.
Nitpick: the government didn't fund anything - it was all paid for out of
private money. [I speak as a director of LINX at the time.] They did
support it, though.
Googling for Greenwich Electronic Time will tell more.
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