In message <71d95256-adee-4323-ade4-b945643ab...@batten.eu.org>, Ian Batten wri tes: > >On 18 Jan 2014, at 11:28, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> >> For instance I doubt you'll find any UK politician willing to push >> a s/GMT/$whatever/ legislation since that will just feed the UKIP >> trolls and become a factor in the Scottish independence referendum. > >I'm not sure that's true.
The question is not if it matters substantially, which, as you argue, it most likely does not, but rather if any politician would be willing to go to bat for a new timescale, facing even the tiniest risk that it could matter. I don't think any will. -- 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