In message <83e442cd-4a84-4493-8e60-867af882b...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: >I wrote: > >>> Which is why the international civil timekeeping standard should be tied to >>> physical reality. > >...but Poul-Henning Kamp said: > >> 1. There is no "international civil timekeeping", civil timekeeping >> is a national legislative matter. > >and later appeared to be arguing the exact opposite point: > >> The entire point of the Meter Convention and of eliminating the >> leap-second hack from UTC, is that we don't need to deal with each >> government one by one.
Ahh, how much time do we need to spend on you trying to twist words Rob ? Is this waste of time what you call "proper engineering" ? 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
