London, UK, city of, and otherwise

[Phil]

The British, like all modern, civilized nations, enjoy a good riot. You should see it when we change the hour twice a year, never mind the calendar. And we would go to war with France again if they declared UTC based on an imaginary line of longitude through Paris.

Phil M1GWZ



On 5 Sep 2016, at 03:44, Thomas F Davis wrote:

> Yeah, I'd take that Ripley story with a pinch of salt.  Catholic canon law allows for "dispensations" from rules such as abstinence from meat.  I've seen it done when St. Paddy's Day falls on a Friday and people wanted their coned beef (I'd rather have the fish, so I don't get that one).  A simple dispensation is a lot easier than declaring a virtual Thursday.  If people did riot it was likely after finding out the dispensation didn't apply to them.
>  
> The most interesting thing about this is that Italian civil law follows in the use of dispensations.  I understand it is possible to park in a no-parking zone in Italy and then get a dispensation from the police to put on your dashboard. Don't know if it has a fee but if there is one it must be less than the fine.
> 
> Back to calendar stuff.  When the International Date Line was created some locations skipped or repeated a day of the week.  The most populous such location was the Philippines.
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