[tz] So, about those LMT offsets

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Brian Inglis via tz said:
> From the legal viewpoint in the English common law based legal world, which
> is most of the Commonwealth of Nations and former colonies including the USA,
> mean solar time represented by UT and some offset(s) still applies, due to
> pre-atomic precedents, regardless of IAU, ISO, or ITU opinions about
> ephemerides, atomic physics, or radio signals.
> If tested, I would expect the current definition of the second may have no
> legal basis in those jurisdictions, and it would be interesting to see if a
> case could be made on the technicality that times commonly used and often
> relied upon may not be legally valid.

I can't speak for anywhere else, but if it became a significant point in a
case, I would expect an English judge to rule that "Greenwich mean time"
has now come to mean UTC.

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