[time-nuts] Loran-C & French Clocks
Magnus Danielson
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Thu Mar 19 09:08:06 UTC 2009
Poul-Henning Kamp skrev:
> 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)
You should complain on my spelling... I knew something was fishy...
I naturally meant 777 souls... darn.
>> 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.
>
Exactly. This is why this IS an interesting topic. This is why I propose
bastard NTP servers that provide UT1 rather than UTC.
Cheers,
Magnus
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