On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Clive D.W. Feather <clive@davros.org> wrote:
Tobias Conradi said:
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:...
I've done this before: there's a horrible mix of GMT and UT in the different translations of that Directive, including some ambiguous cases. And the translations don't necessarily match the legal times in the countries using those languages.
The above link leads to a 2011 communication related to directive 2000/84/EC. The 2000/2001 has indeed varying translations of the article 2: == EN English == http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2001:031:0021:002...
From 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall begin, in every Member State, at 1.00 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday in March
== DE German == http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2001:031:0021:002... Ab dem Jahr 2002 beginnt die Sommerzeit in jedem Mitgliedstaat am letzten Sonntag im März um 1 Uhr morgens Weltzeit [Weltzeit ~ Worldtime] == French == À compter de l'année 2002, la période de l'heure d'été commence, dans chaque État membre, à 1 heure du matin, temps universel, le dernier dimanche de mars. [temps universel ~ universal time] ES Spanish: hora universal ~ universal time IT Italian: ora universale PT Portuguese: tempo universal ~ universal time SV Swedish: Greenwichtid (Greenwich Mean Time, GMT) ~ Greenwich time DA Danish: verdenstid (UTC) ~ worldtime EL Greek: ώρα Γκρίνουιτς ~ Greenwich time FI Finish: [I cannot read that:] Kesäaika alkaa kaikissa jäsenvaltioissa vuodesta 2002 alkaen kello 1 aamuyöllä (GMT) maaliskuun viimeisenä sunnuntaina -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/tobias_conradi