On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 09:54 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20100811094933.gd26...@davros.org>, "Clive D.W. Feather" writes: > >Zefram said: > >> Western scientists have challenged such assertions, noting that the > >> Magnetic North Pole is on a line of longitude that passes through > >> Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica. > >> > >> And there was me thinking it might be on a line of longitude that > >> *doesn't* pass through Antarctica. Silly me. > > > >There's an implied "and no other countries" in there. > > Yes, typical american imperialism, obviously... >
Yes, their rationale makes no sense. And _therefore_ ??? You're all missing the point here. Which can be summarized by the phrase: "The customer is always right." These people are creating their own clock that, 1. will not have < 1s accuracy 2. is astronomically based 3. is not in sync with UTC 4. they expect 1 billion people to rely on, and 5. is going to meet with perfect success At this point I would be asking who is really the stupid party. The way I see it, the ITU has the choice to gain or loose 1 billion "customers" of their "standard". -paul _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
