Re: text book example why Leapseconds are bad

2006-01-03 Thread Peter Bunclark
Perhaps I was a little hard, and I certainly make plenty of typos when dashing off a semi-formal email such as this. When publishing a techical paper, however, in a journal or on the Web, I do try and give it a quick proof (preferably by someone else). Such "in your face" spelling errors as

Re: text book example why Leapseconds are bad

2006-01-03 Thread Randy Kaelber
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:42:31AM +, Peter Bunclark wrote: > And these "Rocket Scientists" can't even spell. Perhaps they can't read, I hope you are now aware that your spelling on this list from this point forward now needs to be flawless. ;-) -- Randy Kaelber

Re: text book example why Leapseconds are bad

2006-01-03 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Bunclark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : And these "Rocket Scientists" can't even spell. Perhaps they can't read, : either. Surely 5 decades into the space age there exists a "How to build a : Spacecraft" text book with a chapter on timescales? I don

Re: text book example why Leapseconds are bad

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Bunclark
And these "Rocket Scientists" can't even spell. Perhaps they can't read, either. Surely 5 decades into the space age there exists a "How to build a Spacecraft" text book with a chapter on timescales? Pete. On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Greg Hennessy wrote: > Textbook example of using the right tool for th

Re: text book example why Leapseconds are bad

2006-01-02 Thread Greg Hennessy
Textbook example of using the right tool for the job. If you need TAI and use UTC, don't blame the problem on the leap seconds. On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 11:29 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/ebisawa/ASCAATTITUDE/ > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zil

text book example why Leapseconds are bad

2006-01-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/ebisawa/ASCAATTITUDE/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.