In message <7f0bbc7e-a1cd-41b0-8489-b0068ee96...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:
>Pretending otherwise is not only insipid, it will ultimately cause >more problems [...] It's not a matter of pretending one way or another, it's simply not a relevant topic for the definition of the UTC timescale. Any relationship between civil time and synodic day and/or any other desired temporal relationships, are the responsibility of each single countrys government and not relevant for the present subject. The same governments are "urged" to make sure expressing the relationship between local time and UTC is not too difficult. -- 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