In message 26bb77ec-8284-4aa8-b9d5-0393dc1e6...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
I have failed to make my argument clear that civil timekeeping is
equivalent (in the sense of a mathematical identity) to some stable
approximation to mean solar time.
I don't think anybody disputes that.
The
In message 8ff6a915-db87-4cd9-bdc9-93e4d2c24...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
I work in the astronomical community. Many long, long years ago, when
this issue was first broached, we started vetting issues pertaining to
astronomy. This change would surely cost us millions of dollars.
On 23 Dec 2008 at 8:43, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
The rest of us have no trouble with a tolerance of up to (at least)
one hour, because that's what is already the reality for 99.9..%
of the population.
And then your distant descendants will throw a huge fit about the
possibility of a leap
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
civil timekeeping is equivalent (in the sense of a mathematical
identity) to some stable approximation to mean solar time.
I don't think anybody disputes that.
Ok. Glad to hear it.
Stable approximation implies that a proposal to change UTC includes
a plan for
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I have told you over and over, that if astronomers got their act
together, they would get this upgrade in the blink of an eye if
business which have real money riding on the leap-second could get
rid of them.
Make us an offer. What have I ever said to suggest
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
And then your distant descendants will throw a huge fit about the
possibility of a leap hour being imposed, which would be much more
noticeably disruptive than leap seconds, and will indefinitely block
such a thing, until some day noon comes in the middle of the night.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Zefram wrote:
Either of my scenarios still suffers from the problem that the TI-UT
difference accelerates. These timezone offset changes would be needed
at decreasing intervals. By the time timezones are jumping by an hour
every year, one might expect to see political
In message 66044ca9-b04e-40f3-8ad6-37f9d5248...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
This, again, shows that you simply don't understand what our trouble
is. We do not need to grep for DUT1, because it's not there, we
don't care about DUT1.
So no naive subcontractors put DUT1 in after reading
As interesting as the continuing theoretical discussions are (or at least, what
I as an interested bystander can comprehend of them), I think it might be
informative to see examples of how the leap second to be thrust upon us next
week is affecting list members' current projects. Specific
Folks,
Any help on how to use a Linux PC driving a large monitor/LCD projector to
show a group of school children the leap second? It will be in daylight
hours here (Singapore).
--
Sanjeev Gupta
+65 98551208
On Tue 2008-12-23T20:08:06 -0800, Brian Garrett hath writ:
examples of how the
Brian Garrett wrote:
As interesting as the continuing theoretical discussions are (or at
least, what I as an interested bystander can comprehend of them), I
think it might be informative to see examples of how the leap second
to be thrust upon us next week is affecting list members'
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