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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Jürgen Appel via time-nuts writes:

> > 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.
>
> >From the proposal, we know that it's simultaneous with the change to daylight 
> saving time and the change of time zones in Greenland (which also adopts UTC 
> right then):

Noticed how the proposed law specifies "kl. 02.00" without seconds ?

Legal time in Denmark is only resolved in minutes, so UT1 and UTC
have always been /legally/ identical.

> > At some point soonish, they will also start to distribute their
> > timescale with NTP and PTP, at which point my 25 year long career
> > as unofficial danish provider of illegal time will come to an end.
>
> We are not quite there yet but hope to get that part up and running by the end 
> of the year. 

That's good enough for me :-)

> I'd welcome if you visit us here at DFM some time, and have a look at our new 
> time lab.  I know there's certainly much to learn from one of the leading NTP 
> experts...

Thanks for the invitation!

I'll give you a call when I'm in the area anyway (Your lab is a bit out of
the way from the traditional time-keeping center of Denmark :-)

Poul-Henning

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