In message <6c773408-836c-4d2a-9d37-0a8b7111e...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: >The flip side of timekeeping on a spinning pebble skipping through the cosmos >is that nothing prevents *also* benefitting from an atomic timescale devoid of >the dreaded irregular radix. > > Civil time = mean solar time > Techie time = atomic clock ensemble
Absolutely, and that is what people are advocating in various forms. The issue that you in particular, and some astronomers along with you, refuse to acknowledge, is that "techie time" extends all the way to peoples telephones, internet connections, flight safety, medicine production and so on. Civil time these days would be more correctly called "ornamental time", because it starts at the VCR, fridge, oven, grandfather clock and other off-line time displays. 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
