Updated UK history of Summer Time

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Tue Jan 6 22:06:56 UTC 1998


Peter Ilieve wrote:

> The definition of `Coordinated Universal Time' in the Bill is
>  `the time scale maintained by the National Physical Laboratory
>   and known as UTC (NPL)'
> I don't know what this actually means.

UTC is a consensus scale based on the scales established by  various 
laboratories around the world.  Presumably NPL is the U.K.
laboratory.

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