Re: [LEAPSECS] tz mail list, ado points to Matsakis of USNO

2014-03-01 Thread Rob Seaman
On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:04 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20140301001133.gc12...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: > >> He says he doesn't know what time it is, but he knows what a second is. >> >> It is again unfortunate that POSIX chose to define the second differently. > > You know

Re: [LEAPSECS] tz mail list, ado points to Matsakis of USNO

2014-03-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20140301001133.gc12...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >He says he doesn't know what time it is, but he knows what a second is. > >It is again unfortunate that POSIX chose to define the second differently. You know perfectly well that POSIX did not "define the second", the explicitl

[LEAPSECS] tz mail list, ado points to Matsakis of USNO

2014-02-28 Thread Steve Allen
over in the tz mail list ado just posted this > "Where Time Comes From"--"Dr. Demetrios Matsakis, Chief Scientist for > USNO's Time Services, gives a tour" > http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/358609/where-time-comes-from/ He says he doesn't know what time it is, but he knows what a second i