independence day
Mostly for the US residents, but in the first case for some beyond the national borders, I relay two links of interest. In response to a document created by its Division of Dynamical Astronomy the American Astronomical Society has formed a committee to make recommendation to the ITU-R. http://www.aas.org/policy/LeapSecondCommittee.html They solicit input before making their recommendation to the AAS council. Input is requested prior to 2006-09-15. In the middle of May some text about legal time in the US was introduced into a US Senate bill regarding funding for NSF and NIST. See section 508 of S.2802 introduced 2006-05-15, e.g. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2802: (note that the final colon in the URL is relevant) This bill is currently awaiting amendments as seen in http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.02802: The language seeks to redefine the national time standard from GMT to UTC. Language like this was introduced in 2002, but the bill was killed. -- Steve Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick ObservatoryNatural Sciences II, Room 165Lat +36.99858 University of CaliforniaVoice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06014 Santa Cruz, CA 95064http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m
Re: independence day
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Allen writes: In the middle of May some text about legal time in the US was introduced into a US Senate bill regarding funding for NSF and NIST. See section 508 of S.2802 introduced 2006-05-15, e.g. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2802: `(b) COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME DEFINED- In this section, the term `Coordinated Universal Time' means the time scale maintained through the General Conference of Weights and Measures and interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce.'. That could sound like the drilling of a loophole :-) -- 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.
Re: independence day
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Allen writes: : : In the middle of May some text about legal time in the US was : introduced into a US Senate bill regarding funding for NSF and NIST. : See section 508 of S.2802 introduced 2006-05-15, e.g. : http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2802: : : `(b) COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME DEFINED- In this section, : the term `Coordinated Universal Time' means the time scale : maintained through the General Conference of Weights and : Measures and interpreted or modified for the United States : by the Secretary of Commerce.'. : : That could sound like the drilling of a loophole :-) As has been pointed out in the past, the Secretary of Commerce has had the ability to define mean solar time to mean UTC (or something else, if they felt the urge)... I think this is just another attempt to keep their options open, like they have now... Warner
