Steve Allen wrote at 22:35 -0700 on Mar 30, 2008:
Someone please tell me again why the zoneinfo files would need 10
years of advance notice if they were to absorb responsibility for leap
seconds.
There are a wide variety of applications that don't care about local
time. If some politicians
Steve Allen wrote:
Someone please tell me again why the zoneinfo files would need 10
years of advance notice if they were to absorb responsibility for
leap seconds.
Rather the opposite. Nobody would object if the schedule for
announcing leapseconds could be extended to 10 years (all
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Steve Allen wrote:
Part of the beauty of distinguishing broadcast time signals from UTC,
while continuing both, is that it allows separate issues to be
addressed separately.
I allow that the broadcast time signals should be leap free, for there
are many operational
Tony Finch said:
So you think that the millions of existing radio controlled clocks and
watches should stop showing civil time?
They already do.
Tony (wondering why his MSF clock failed to switch to BST).
Mine changed fine, though it was a bit moot since the entire family was in
Italy until
On Mon 2008-03-31T12:20:06 +0100, Tony Finch hath writ:
So you think that the millions of existing radio controlled clocks and
watches should stop showing civil time?
Yes, that is, yes to a subsecond precision.
They would be showing TI instead of UT, another international
standard, and a
Rob Seaman wrote at 00:55 -0700 on Mar 31, 2008:
John Hein wrote:
For those applications that do care about local time, there are
other forums for discussing this class of problem. It's certainly a
real issue for some, but is separable from the issues associated
with leap
Rob Seaman said:
Ease of setting is a great feature. But setting a clock
also involves checking that you set it correctly (selected the right
combination of buttons on the back).
Um, what buttons on the back? My kitchen RC clock has none such (probably
because just about all of the UK is
On Mon 2008-03-31T00:55:55 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
It is a neat trick to accuse one party (scientists) with the crime of
the other (politicians).
I will stipulate that both the ITU-R and the IAU are guilty of
politics, and move on.
There is a stark difference in the written record between
Steve Allen wrote at 18:56 -0700 on Mar 31, 2008:
On Mon 2008-03-31T08:06:54 -0600, John E Hein hath writ:
If UTC no longer has leap
seconds or the computers use Steve's TI or similar
International Time, Temps International, TI is not my invention.
I was not at the Colloquium on UTC
