Stephen Colebourne said:
Local time
* definition: local-time - the time-scale local to a region of the Earth
* definition: offset - the duration that local-time differs from the
locally recognised legal standard time-scale
Sorry, that's nonsense. By definition, that offset is always zero,
On Wed 2011/02/16 01:34:57 -, Tony Finch wrote
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I have been saying that, as a reason for changing UTC today, it is
a specious argument that should be rejected.
Yes.
Agreement!
It's also a bogus argument for keeping leap
On Tue 2011/02/15 18:51:58 PDT, Rob Seaman wrote
in a message to: Leap Second Discussion List leapsecs@leapsecond.com
My point is just that archival data is sufficient to characterize the
real world behavior of the algorithms already developed. We needn't
wait ten years to know if data limited
