In message <037ba1cd-da84-4ae9-8623-657f4cf8e...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:
>3) My own point of view focuses on the requirements for "wall >clocks". Civil timekeeping has (heretofore) been mean solar time >[...] You mean "has been within a couple of hours of mean solar time" ? >4) The ITU proposal is basically an assertion that people don't care >about mean solar time. The fact that the majority of the earths population use a legal time that is more than 15 minutes different from mean solaer time, would seem to support the ITU in this. Have you or others provided any documentation for the opposite claim ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | 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
