[time-nuts] Loran-C & French Clocks

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Mar 18 15:39:15 UTC 2009


In message: <49C033E3.2010601 at rubidium.dyndns.org>
            Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> writes:
: So far:
: 
: UTC based: France, Sweden
: GMT based (UT1?): Great Brittian, Denmark

US: UTC

It was "Mean Solar Time" for a long time, and then it was changed to
"Mean Solar Time as interpreted by the secretary of commerce" which
gave enough wiggle room to move to UTC.  The recent DST changes also
contained a rider that changed this to UTC, as implemented by USNO.

Warner




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