EU directive

Markus Kuhn Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Thu Mar 29 16:12:33 UTC 2001


Antoine Leca wrote on 2001-03-29 15:27 UTC:
> Even for English speakers, it is amazing to see how variously Greenwich
> Mean Time is translated: Weltzeit/wereldtijd ("worldtime"), temps/tempo/
> hora/ora universale, and even UTC in Danish!

I'd argue that "Greenwich Mean Time" is a misstranslation here and that
the English document should have referred to "Universal Time" as well,
like all the other language versions do.

Markus

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