[time-nuts] Re: Denmark in the Century of the fruitbat

Jürgen Appel jap at dfm.dk
Thu Jan 26 16:06:33 UTC 2023


Dear Poul-Henning,

On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 21:41:38 CET Poul-Henning Kamp via time-nuts 
wrote:

> As some of you may recall, legal time in Denmark is "the mean solar
> time of the 15th eastern longitude", because nobody got around to
> update the "Law of Time" from 1893 which said so.
> 
> (See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRz-Dl60Lfc)
> 
> Today, finally, the government proposed new law which says which
> will say:
> 
> 	"Danish normal time will follow UTC plus one hour"
> 
> If ratified, the law will take effect on March 26 2023 at 02:00.

> The law does not say if 02:00 is according to the old or the new
> law, which according to current Bulletin A will differ by 22.68
> milliseconds by then.



More information about the Time-nuts_lists.febo.com mailing list