Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote: > > I can safely say from my experience there, that if leap seconds are > abolished it will not be with the British peoples approval.
I got the impression from the emphasis on non-technical aspects that the consultation was designed to get that answer. It's easy to persuate the British public to vote no. And I seem to remember from reading the materials that they also ignored the cultural damage that was done by the introduction of leap seconds in the first place, breaking a multi-thousand-year tradition of base 60 fractions, making all mechanical clocks obsolete, and so on. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Trafalgar: Cyclonic in northwest, otherwise mainly northerly or northwesterly 5 or 6. Slight or moderate. Showers in northwest. Good. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
