[time-nuts] Loran-C & French Clocks

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Mar 19 07:14:56 UTC 2009


In message <49C17D52.6050703 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>Last time I checked, Gudhjem is the home of 777 soles.

I doubt that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_(fish)

>It is a bit humours that the Danish translation of the EC Directive on 
>summer-time shifts defines the shifts between summer and winter time as 
>occuring at certain UTC times where as only GMT based times is legally 
>acknowledged in Denmark. Lovely. :)

The real fun, is that the government finds itself unable to run a
public NTP server, because it would dole out non-legal time.

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