[time-nuts] Loran-C & French Clocks

Magne Mæhre magne at samfundet.no
Thu Mar 26 12:46:48 UTC 2009


Magnus Danielson wrote:
> So far:
> 
> UTC based: France, Sweden
> GMT based (UT1?): Great Brittian, Denmark
> 
> I suspect several countries (such as US, Germany etc. etc) to be UTC 
> based, but I do not know for sure.

Norway is UTC-based as of 2008-01-01.

The law on units, measurements and standard time:
http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-20070126-004-002.html#6
|§6 Normaltiden i Norge er én time foran koordinert
|   universaltid (UTC+1).
| Kongen kan fastsette en avvikende normaltid for særskilte
| årstider.

(rough translation):  «The standard time of Norway is _one_ hour
ahead of coordinated universal time (UTC+1).
The King (i.e the cabinet) can decide to deviate and
establish another standard time for given seasons
(i.e daylight savings time)»


Before this, we had the "Log um sams normaltid fyr kongeriket Norig"
from 1894, which was based on an understanding of GMT, but not
very scientifically written:

«Fraa den 1ste januar 1895 skal mideltidi fyr den meridianen, som
ligg 15 grader austanfyr Greenwich, vera det loglege klokkeslætte
i Norig.»

translated:
«From the 1st of January 1895, the mean time for that meridian,
that is 15 degrees east of Greenwich, be the legal time in
Norway»


--Magne






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