Re: [LEAPSECS] drawing the battle lines

2013-05-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message e1uagid-000nir...@stenn.ntp.org, Harlan Stenn writes: Warner, I think your position is only valid form the point of view that says a timescale can only be used to count fixed-length seconds. That is not really what timescales are about. Timescales, as concept, are for communicating

Re: [LEAPSECS] drawing the battle lines

2013-05-09 Thread Gerard Ashton
I think the problem is that time scale is not defined. It could be a scale that can be used both to indicate when events occurred or will occur, and to find durations by subtracting the beginning time from the ending time, and during any duration of the same number of seconds, physical processes