In message <06bd6317-458b-4c30-a773-c23108ddc...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:
As usual you try to fudge the fundamental facts to your point of view: 1. UTC is supposed to be universal, so that UTC=X is the same instant everywhere, within our measuring ability. 2. There is no requirement that UTC must to have any relationship to the precence or absence of sunlight on any particular piece of rotating rock. 3. Timezones are how governments align legal time with sunlight as they see fit. And that is really all there is to it. Even if they tried, no international standardisation effort could ever dictate any government where the sun must be in the sky at any particular legal time. The ITU-R proposal reflects this. -- 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
