-------- In message <20171025054835.ga18...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >On Tue 2017-10-24T19:32:31+0000 Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: >> The parallel is not as convincing as you may think. Back then, the people >> who worked with stuff where it made a difference knew what they were doing, >> being generally people with "phd." after their name. > >Alas, the history says that way too many of the PhDs did not. There >are lots of astronomers who wrote down their concept of origin and >meaning of the new second but turned out not to understand what the >new value of the second actually represented. Sadler is nearly alone on >record expressing the opinion that the leap second was a bad idea, >everybody else thought it was the perfect solution.
A perfectly good argument why we should not listen to the astronomers this time around :-) -- 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
