I think that the most and possibly only bit of relevance to contemporary issues in this legal summary is that time has to be available to people to legally bind them.
You simply can't stipulate a deadline on a timescale they do not have access to, and the legal basis for this argument seems to be "right to a fair trial". I interpret this as trying to trick somebody with the TAI-UTC difference would be a no-go with The Supremes. But what the timescale is, who owns it or who controls is clearly a legislative issue according to the most recent rulings. But interesting reading, all the same. -- 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.