-------- In message <20150206023406.ga10...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:
>> doesn't address the elephant in the room - local time. >It is all too common to find situations where it is difficult to >ascertain who has authority, over what geographic region, and what >exactly they are trying to say. [...] But contrary to the leap-second, which is imposed by a bunch of scientists with no democratic or other mandate, those who muck about with local time are responsible, through whatever goes for democracy in that locale, to the people affected. This is a very good argument for the positioin notion that unelected and unrepresentative scientists should not get to decide where and when the Sun is supposed to be in the sky above. -- 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 https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
