In message <20110208202941.gg1...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >Most governments of the world are signatories to agreements which >state that Universal Time is a subdivision of the mean solar day which >ultimately produces the calendar.
What argrements are you thinking of ? And is the averaging period defined in them ? Otherwise simply picking a suitable averaging period, 1800-2100 for instance, will fix that. >the notion of time continues to deserve input from astronomical measurements. I don't think notion of time "deserves" anything of the sort, time seems to have managed just fine before the invention of astronomers :-) -- 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
