June 14, 2020
4:08 p.m.
On 2020-06-13 18:44, Paul Eggert wrote:
Of course this is just my reading of the law, and I suppose the law could be read differently.
h Ignoring any translations of French newspaper reports, we know that the two time scales, French legal time = UT + 00:09:21 and French railway time = UT + 00:04:21, were adjusted to the same time scale, namely UT, on the same occasion. Is it really so hard to understand that this must have happened when UT was 1911-03-11T00:00:00, and not when UT was 1911-03-10T23:50:39 or 1911-03-10T23:55:39 (or even at different instants for the two time scales)? Michael Deckers.