In message <alpine.lsu.2.00.1011021839340.6...@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony Fi nch writes: >On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> Finagle Subject to >> Factor Unit/Resolution politics since >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> Leap days 86400 sec. 2000 bc. >> Timezones 3600 sec. 1884 > >A better date would be 1845 (first petition to parliament in favour of a >national time zone).
I may be misremembering, I thought the longitude conference was in 1884 ? >There is still an active argument along these lines about how to determine >when Ramadan starts. And a very vocal subgroup, who argues that astronomical observations is no way to run a religion it in climates like Denmark... -- 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
