Clive D.W. Feather cl...@davros.org wrote:
Markus Kuhn said:
I don't think the authority of ISO to define what calendar we use is
any higher than (say) the authority of Wikipedia on such matters. They
both are merely widely-respected committees reporting on what the
current consensus
Tony Finch said:
Individual national governments don't have much authority to legislate
calendars - the Easter Act 1928 is a nice example.
Disagree. If the relevant Order had been made by now, the two public
holidays we just had would be this weekend coming instead. And, if I
understand the
Clive D.W. Feather cl...@davros.org wrote:
Tony Finch said:
Individual national governments don't have much authority to legislate
calendars - the Easter Act 1928 is a nice example.
Disagree. If the relevant Order had been made by now, the two public
holidays we just had would be this
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote on 2012-04-03 21:53 UTC:
In message 49f1293b-4f70-4515-881b-cd12c43cc...@bsdimp.com, Warner Losh
write
s:
Wouldn't that need to be done by the Pope? Has the Vatican ever
delegated continuing maintenance of the Gregorian Calendar to a
third party?
The ISO
Markus Kuhn said:
I
don't think the authority of ISO to define what calendar we use is any
higher than (say) the authority of Wikipedia on such matters. They both
are merely widely-respected committees reporting on what the current
consensus is.
Indeed. This is clearly something in the remit
Using the USA as an example, the constitutional provision giving the federal
government
authority over standards of weight and measure arguably gives it authority
over time-of-day.
Their success in regulating time zones and legal recognition of UTC as the
basis of time
tends to confirm this
