[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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