[time-nuts] What time is it anyway?

[Chris Cheney]

> I think that is the BIPM (http://www.bipm.org/en/home/) in association
> with the IERS (http://hpiers.obspm.fr/)
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> On 28 March 2010 10:29, Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What puzzles me is who is the keeper of "legal time" for the other
> > 93.4% of land mass and 95.5% of population of the World other than the
> > US.

_By definition_ (ITU-R-TF.460-4, Annex 1), the keeper of UTC is BIPM with 
assistance from the IERS. But "legal time", being a national matter, is 
something quite different and might or might not be aligned with UTC, 
depending on the individual nation state.