BIPM is an _international_ organisation, and apart to be in France, has nothing to do (and never had as far as I know) with the definition of French legal time. At least no more than for any other country UTC (or TAI) based. Jean-Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lux, James P" <james.p....@jpl.nasa.gov> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] French Time offset
> > > > On 3/17/09 10:35 PM, "Rich and Marcia Putz" <rp...@bnin.net> wrote: > >> Thanks John, yes I'm real. >> The 1978 date is correct, I'm looking for the article to quote. Prior to >> the >> decree, France maintained a roughly twelve and a half minute offset. I >> always >> was struck by this as the BIPM is located in France, and has been for >> many >> years. Disagreement on the location of the prime meridian perhaps? > > Paris is at 2degrees 20 min longitude, which isn't enough to account for > 12.5 minutes. Sevres (where BIPM is) is actually a bit to the west, so > even > less solar time difference. > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.