Brooks,
A couple more comments on your questions.
> Many timekeeping systems seem to be designed for only indicating "now"
> counting forward, including NTP, POSIX, and PTP, taking short-cuts to
> avoid supplying full Leap Second and local-time metadata.
I'm not clear why you call that a "shor
On Wed 2015-03-11T11:04:57 -0700, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
> The entire purpose of UTC is to provide a single timescale for all
> human-related activity.
And UTC has failed miserably. POSIX says UTC has no leaps.
Google says UTC has occasional days with stretches of seconds which
are of varying le
Rob,
Yes, it looks to me like the timestamps you extracted below are all based on a
global synchronized atomic time scale and solar time has nothing to do with it.
Isn't it cool that all this works just fine, regardless of the current angle of
the earth wrt the stars? And it would all continue
Tom Van Baak said:
> Quite correct. Solar time is good for humans. That's why no one except the
> United Kingdom can use UTC for their daily activities. Every other nation has
> a way to circumvent UTC and use their own local time instead.
That will come as a surprise to the inhabitants of Icela
I'm curious about the repeatability of natural biological cycles. I suspect
that most of them are actually triggered by external nonbiological cues
rather than being 'biological clocks' in our sense of the word clock.
Some that come to mind are annual. The swallows at Capistrano (and the
buzzards
On Mar 11, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> The entire purpose of UTC is to provide a single timescale for all
> human-related activity.
Well… ;-)
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Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>
> Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>> We have a saying in danish "Skoma'r bliv ved din læst" which translates
>> to "Cobbler stay at your workbench".
>
> The English word is "last": "The cobbler should stick to his last". Almost
> certainly with the same derivation.
If you fi
Thanks, Kevin, for your interesting biological perspective. I think the two
vocal astronomers on the mailing list, Rob and Steve, will be happy to add your
conclusive scientific, .edu-validated, biological expertise to their pro- leap
second knowledge base. As you know, I am neither pro or con,
Solar time is good for humans, but as everyone on this list knows, solar time
is not the same as mean time or UTC.
>From a chronobiological perspective, mammals have a small cluster of neurons
>at the base of the hypothalamus called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN).
>There are two parts to th
Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> We have a saying in danish "Skoma'r bliv ved din læst" which translates
> to "Cobbler stay at your workbench".
The English word is "last": "The cobbler should stick to his last". Almost
certainly with the same derivation.
> The fact that he is a lawyer seems to have noth
In message <5500731c.3080...@edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:
>Overall he seems to make a good philosophical argument why solar time is
>good for humans. But his conclusion seems confused.
We have a saying in danish "Skoma'r bliv ved din læst" which translates
to "Cobbler stay at your
Brooks,
> Overall he seems to make a good philosophical argument why solar time is
> good for humans. But his conclusion seems confused.
Quite correct. Solar time is good for humans. That's why no one except the
United Kingdom can use UTC for their daily activities. Every other nation has a
wa
Ted Folkman is a lawyer who blogs about international law
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