On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:25:01 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 17:28:52 on
Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Peter Sumner
remarked:
The official time in the UK is maintained by the NPL and it ticks
atomic seconds in UTC.

This is *a* time that is maintained by the NPL.

NPL say http://www.npl.co.uk/time/ "Home of the nation's atomic time
scale" and "providing the UK time scale related to UTC ", in both
cases its "the" time scale rather than just "a" time.

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Peter Sumner