In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >Oh yeah! I also heartily support Steve's implicit message here. >Rather than trashing one timescale, let's just simply complete the >proper system engineering started in the Nineteenth century and call >any such new timescale "International Time".
It has always seemed very pretentious to me, that a timescale bound tightly to a particular rotating rock was called "Universal". I can live with International Time as a name, but would far prefer to have it be Terrestial Time, so it names the rock in question. -- 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
