Oh, and our own beloved TVB whose time lab can keep UTC no worse than
NIST or whoever owns the leapseconds.com domain. Once IERS ceases to
allow the use of their IT resources to distribute leap second
announcements, a new mailing list will need to be set up.
Leapsecond.com is clearly a good
It wouldn't surprise me if you have your kids build one of those for a science
fair project!
From: Tom Van Baak
Sent: Tue 10/26/2010 2:14 AM
To: Leap Second Discussion List
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Saint Crispin's Day
...
And no, my lab isn't near as good as NIST; but I do keep
an eye out
In message 09b6e6af-6426-4068-a4a8-f4ade644a...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
No. Diurnal rhythms are more pronounced than ever in human systems
and processes. Allowing these to drift is a poor engineering choice.
Yes, indeed. It has been
Yes, indeed. It has been nothing but trouble for us that the usual
human circadian rythm is a couple of hours longer than 24 hours the
planet currently cares to rotate in.
The last I heard, it was just over 24 hours, and the original
research that had turned up a figure of around 25 hours was
On Oct 25, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
How could it ever be considered good design to embed a politically
controled timescale, subject to lots of valid scientific criticism,
into the design of astronomical equipment ?
Managing the timescale wasn't originally a politically
In message 2b4e4363-72b2-4361-a562-5eb8b9cd1...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
Heretofore the UT in UTC has meant Universal Time.
Just like the 'U' in UN has meant united with little practical effect...
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP
Rob Seaman wrote:
So - assume UTC is a dead loss. Then what?
Time scales are not easily killed off. The general concept of a time
scale that uses leap seconds to coordinate TAI and UT obviously has
its advantages, and some users would presumably find it convenient to
continue to have such a
Zefram zef...@fysh.org wrote:
Time scales are not easily killed off. The general concept of a time
scale that uses leap seconds to coordinate TAI and UT obviously has
its advantages, and some users would presumably find it convenient to
continue to have such a time scale, even if they're no
Michael Sokolov wrote:
Are you saying you are going to vote for a sheriff
who would storm her house with guns to force her to stop using the term
UTC for her own time scale with her own leap seconds?
No, and I don't see how you could think I was proposing such a thing.
I
