In message <20101102184333.gy21...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >On Tue 2010-11-02T18:37:11 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>The existing international agreement for the meaning >of "day" is "mean solar day". You mean "one of the existing..." ? The astronomical meaning of the word day may indeed be what you say, but the equally internationally agreed standard for computer operating systems define a day as 86400 SI seconds. The question is which one ITU-R adopts. -- 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
