On 2016-11-08 15:45, Matt Johnson wrote:
On Monday, November 7, 2016 9:10 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
According to the DK NMI DANIAmet: https://daniamet.dk/en/nmi/time-and-frequency/ "The law on time (Law No 83, 29/03/1893) prescribe that the time in Denmark is determined by mean solar time and not the UTC time." I'm fairly certain that joining the European Union in 1973 would retire such a Danish law from 1893. Especially since UTC wasn't defined when the said law was introduced, so the law couldn't have mentioned "not the UTC time".
This is an English page from a Danish web site, so I expect the latter is just commentary. They also mention their NMI maintains no Time & Frequency standards, so they outsource calibration and time keeping to other countries, as they have no local UTC standard, which may mean they can't say legally they follow UTC. I think UK legal time is also still some variety of GMT, as may be some other Commonwealth countries. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada