-------- I think the "dialog" shows one thing clearly: The UK's historical zero offset from UTC has made it very hard for them to generalize that this is not a law of nature.
It is certainly clear that very few involved realized that UK could run on a non-zero UTC offset, without any more harm to society than the rest of the world suffers, and that way, by national political choice choose any relationship between sun-height and civil day they might prefer. I wonder how different the outcome of the "dialog" would have been, if they had been told that leap seconds would happen at 8 or 9am on any day of the week, ie: during the busiest hour of traffic, on roads, rails and in the air ? That's what a similar "dialog" would warn about, if it were conducted in China or Japan. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs