In message <alpine.lsu.2.00.1009031840050.31...@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony F inch writes:
>If the ITU change the >definition of GMT, and if the British government continues to follow ITU >recommendations and to disregard the historical astronomical meaning of >GMT, then the equivalence will continue. Just to highlight how laughable the retroimperialist love for GMT is: Which exact meridian are we talking about again ? Are we talking about the meridian Airy drew through his telescope or the one we actually use, about 100m east of his telescope ? Did anybody in England gather an orderly mob around GMT, to protect its imperial virginity, when the WGS84 redefinition of the geodesic origo changed it by five and a half second ? Let me remind you that WGS84 _also_ redefined UTC. Can we please drop this nonsense now ? Or at least queue it, where it belongs, behind the still pending tax-refund for the 12 missing days in september 1752 ? Poul-Henning -- 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
