On 21 Aug 2014, at 08:06, Clive D.W. Feather cl...@davros.org wrote:
Warner Losh said:
Absolutely. We get leap days right because we don?t have to hear from the
pope?s astronomers every year to know if it will be a leap year or not. We
know for thousands of years.
And note that it was
There exist, in use, two differing definitions of the dynamical equinox.
The one is called the rotational equinox, and the other is called the
inertial equinox (Standish 1981, [
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1981A%26A...101L..17S]). The IERS uses the
inertial equinox.
I differentiate between
Warner Losh said:
Absolutely. We get leap days right because we don?t have to hear from the
pope?s astronomers every year to know if it will be a leap year or not. We
know for thousands of years.
And note that it was exactly that problem that led Caius Julius to reform
the calendar in the
In the discussion about whether or not to drop the leap second, I think it
is not a question about solar time or not solar time. It is in other words
not a question about either solar time or atomic time.
If we drop the leap second it will be in favour of another timescale, which
uses only
On Aug 20, 2014, at 18:48, leapsecs-requ...@leapsecond.com wrote:
Dropping Leap Seconds is something like burning great libraries.
That's a very particular opinion. I'd compare it to adding decimal digits to Pi
instead of just saying 3 is accurate enough.
:-)
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On 2014-08-20 10:23 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Brooks Harris bro...@edlmax.com wrote:
Since the beginning of civilization society has pursued the goal of perfect
timekeeping. UTC is one of the great intellectual achievements of mankind.
The difficulties with Leap
On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.com wrote:
On Aug 20, 2014, at 18:48, leapsecs-requ...@leapsecond.com wrote:
Dropping Leap Seconds is something like burning great libraries.
That's a very particular opinion. I'd compare it to adding decimal digits to
Pi
On Aug 20, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Brooks Harris bro...@edlmax.com wrote:
On 2014-08-20 10:23 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Brooks Harris bro...@edlmax.com
wrote:
Since the beginning of civilization society has pursued the goal of perfect
timekeeping. UTC is one of the
Ask Bjørn Hansen writes:
I'd compare it to adding decimal digits to Pi instead of just saying 3 is
accurate enough.
Warner Losh says:
A more proper analogy would be using 3.141593 instead of 3.1415926…
Proper analogies, is it? More like 2.7182818 - the functional forms differ.
To do
On 2014-08-20 11:57 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Aug 20, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Brooks Harris bro...@edlmax.com wrote:
On 2014-08-20 10:23 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Brooks Harris bro...@edlmax.com
wrote:
Since the beginning of civilization society has pursued the goal
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