On 24/08/16 20:05, Paul Eggert wrote:
Are there any countries whose law still prescribes the time zone as a meridian
Legal time in the UK is still officially offset from GMT, not from UTC. See <https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/>. This is a bit dicey, since GMT is no longer maintained. I expect other countries specify something similar, though I don't know of any offhand. India, perhaps?
In practice people don't follow this part of UK law exactly as written, and use UTC even when a strict reading of the law might require GMT. For example, as part of the EU, the UK requires electronic signatures' time stamps to be linked to UTC, not GMT (see regulation 910/2014/EU). I doubt whether this would change even if Brexit becomes real.
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone/ Just use Military designation and have done with it ;) But essentially Zulu marries GMT, UT and UTC which is perhaps why the international space station runs on GMT but essentially it's interchangeable with UTC today. http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk