In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes: >That's what they said about changing the conventional longitudes of >every observatory on the planet in order to get agreement on the value >of UT starting in 1962. But in 1961 the IAU said "do it", and they >did -- even in cases where it caused a time step in the sovereign time >scale of a nation, and even where it introduced a new, potentially >ambiguous notion of origin of longitude for civil mapping.
This comparison is so bogus that we ought to frame and hang it. In 1961, the task was on a few handfulls of scientific people, most, if not all, of them phd's, and all of them very much at home in the subject domain. Fiddling with time_t today would involves more than a million persons, very few of which can readily tell you what a leap-second is. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
