On Wed 2014-01-08T12:11:39 -0800, Brooks Harris hath writ: > Who, or what standards body, would have the (international) > authority to be taken seriously? I'm not sure about that, but since > the whole time-keeping mess was started out by astronomers I figure > this list is a good place to ask :-)
The existence of the "double leap second" in POSIX, ANSI C, and ANSI SQL indicates that those committees had not even read the content of ITU-R TF.460. In a situation like that authority is irrelevant. The past decade of non-consensual non-decision discussion documents from various bodies who have considered leap seconds and the failed draft revisions for TF.460 leave me unconvinced that that there is anyone with enough zeal to become such an authority. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
