In message <20101102194805.gb21...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >On Tue 2010-11-02T18:55:17 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>The POSIX standard admits that its "seconds" are not all of the same >length, and for practical purposes that makes them "mean solar >seconds", not "SI seconds" nor "seconds of TAI". It admits no such thing, and for all I know, and despite your complaints about the lack of an "essen" unit, that there is more than one definition of a second in use at present ? Seconds are SI seconds, as defined by Cs133 radiation by BIPM. Their length is not in dispute, their number in a day is. -- 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
