On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> wrote:
On Fri 2011-09-23T22:53:10 +0200, Tobias Conradi hath writ:
IIRC UTC and not GMT is the basis for most time legislation that is currently in place.
It would be interesting to find reliable indicators about whether UTC or GMT is the basis in any given region. Even recently I've seen official decrees using the geographic terms "meridian" and "Greenwich".
UTC used in EU law to define the start and end of summer-time: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2011:083:0006:01:... Germany http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/me_einhg/__4.html "koordinierte Weltzeit" ~ coordinated Worldtime -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/tobias_conradi