On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> See for example
> http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2011-January/002124.html
> where Rob Seaman wrote "Civil timekeeping is cumulative. Tiny mistakes
> posing the problem will result in large and growing permanent errors."
Great to see fol
On 02/10/2011 22:31, Tom Van Baak wrote:
Correcting only for elevation above
the geoid I fully expect a cesium standard to keep the same
time in Fairbanks as it would in Boulder or Paris, etc. Am I
missing something? Should I start planning a new clock trip?
I don't know if your clock would sur
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Mark Calabretta wrote:
>
> It's been a while... Can you remind me why we will need to continue
> to pretend that there are 86400 SI seconds in a day, past the time
> when there are actually 86401 (or more)?
At 2.5ms/cy that'll be in 40,000 years. I hope you don't mind if I th
Ian Batten said:
> And people routinely live in places where solar time is several hours adrift
> from civil time --- Brest, France for example is four degrees west of
> Greenwich, yet in the summer is on UTC+2 --- so at noon civil time it is 0945
> solar time.
Parts of (mainland) Spain are eve
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Mark Calabretta wrote:
> On Thu 2011/02/10 10:43:40 -, Tony Finch wrote
> >
> >Also, the "quadratic catastrophe" argument is usually used in support of
> >UTC.
>
> Really? Can you provide references for that.
See for example
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2011
Mark Calabretta said:
>> The speculation on the list is that in the absence of a central
>> authority, local governments will act as their people request when it is
>> staying dark too late and parents can't get their kids to bed with the
>> sun still shining, or have to drive to work in the dar
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Michael Deckers wrote:
>
>Which evidently wasn't worth it. I've heard objections against
>the notation on the grounds that letter suffixes like A and B
>are used in the military, where they denote fixed time zones
>(Alpha for UTC + 1 h, Bravo for UTC + 2 h, ...)
On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Paul Sheer wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 21:31 -0800, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>>
>
>> I know we're getting a bit far from the OP or from leap seconds,
>
> You don't say
"The medium is the message" and "there is another system":
http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 21:31 -0800, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> Magnus & Mark & Rob,
>
> I know we're getting a bit far from the OP or from leap seconds,
You don't say
-paul
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