On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 21:31 -0800, Tom Van Baak wrote:
Magnus Mark Rob,
I know we're getting a bit far from the OP or from leap seconds,
You don't say
-paul
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Mark Calabretta said:
The speculation on the list is that in the absence of a central
authority, local governments will act as their people request when it is
staying dark too late and parents can't get their kids to bed with the
sun still shining, or have to drive to work in the dark too
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Mark Calabretta wrote:
On Thu 2011/02/10 10:43:40 -, Tony Finch wrote
Also, the quadratic catastrophe argument is usually used in support of
UTC.
Really? Can you provide references for that.
See for example
Ian Batten said:
And people routinely live in places where solar time is several hours adrift
from civil time --- Brest, France for example is four degrees west of
Greenwich, yet in the summer is on UTC+2 --- so at noon civil time it is 0945
solar time.
Parts of (mainland) Spain are even
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
See for example
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2011-January/002124.html
where Rob Seaman wrote Civil timekeeping is cumulative. Tiny mistakes
posing the problem will result in large and growing permanent errors.
Great to see folks
