In message <719683fad725c87fb7cb156e7eabdb7a.squir...@mx.pipe.nl>, "Nero Imhard " writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> With respect to national laws, they are N times easier to fix than >> an international treaty, and therefore much less of a concern. > >Then it was a mistake for those treaties to directly refer to UTC instead >of indirectly to "the internationally agreed upon reference time".
Which part of "Coordinated" did you not understand in UTC ? UTC's semantics is "the timescale we agree to coordinate on", its relationship to the heavens above was merely a convenient matter of implementation. -- 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
