UTC as basis for time legislation

[Tobias Conradi]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:
> On Fri 2011-09-23T22:53:10 +0200, Tobias Conradi hath writ:
>> IIRC UTC and not GMT is the basis for most time legislation that is
>> currently in place.
>
> It would be interesting to find reliable indicators about whether UTC
> or GMT is the basis in any given region.  Even recently I've seen
> official decrees using the geographic terms "meridian" and "Greenwich".

UTC used in EU law to define the start and end of summer-time:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2011:083:0006:01:EN:HTML

Germany
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/me_einhg/__4.html
"koordinierte Weltzeit" ~ coordinated Worldtime

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