In message 20140110050534.e4388406...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net, Hal Mu
rray writes:
Do you have data or references for that? If I heard it from anybody less
credible, I'd guess it was an urban legend? Was it accurate 50 years ago?
Several people deeply involved in the Danish
In message 20140110055749.b07c1406...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net, Hal Mu
rray writes:
(from a day or two ago...)
Brooks Harris bro...@edlmax.com said:
So I ask your opinion(s) - Do you think there's a need for a document like
I've described? What standards body do you think would be
In message 20140110064412.gb20...@ucolick.org, Steve Allen writes:
I have asserted that POSIX does not want to know astronomy, does not
want to track geophysics, [...]
You are right about that.
that POSIX really wants to count atomic days
rather than mean solar days,
And wrong about that.
On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:15 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
On 06/01/14 19:40, Rob Seaman wrote:
PDFs of the slides from the talks yesterday (5 Jan 2014) are now available
at:
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/aas223/
Thanks for the pointer.
Reviewing Kara Warburton's
In message 82c28c2d-c797-4c56-a2e9-b65f38faf...@bsdimp.com, Warner Losh write
s:
The side channel issue is why I've advocated, with others, a much
longer time horizon for leap seconds. This would allow the useful
life of most products to have no need for a communications side
channel to get this
In message 80159b27-dfc6-431c-819f-99107a143...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
The metaphor for the day tag had my hopes up that this would be a metaphor
for the concept of day...no such luck. Not sure one should put much faith
in a religious metaphor from a site called antipope.org :-)
Charles
On Jan 10, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
Charles Stross is one of the most gifted and insightfull Science
Fiction writers of all time, ...
A good introduction to his is this short story about coffee:
Warner Losh writes:
...
A TAI realization of time_t isn't POSIX, which specifically proscribes
UTC.
I think you mean prescribes.
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There are potential religious implications associated with dropping leap
seconds from civil time. There are perennial calls for improvements to the
Gregorian calendar (which of course was instigated by a pope) by modifying
the leap year rule. One such proposal is the Revised Julian Calendar,
In message 2a2480dc-a5d6-4027-8364-e17af4049...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
Not pertinent, however, to my point about religious metaphors
emanating from antipope.org. One might, for instance, be skeptical
of comments about ev= olution arising from a creationist web site,
however skillful the
On 10/01/14 20:08, Harlan Stenn wrote:
Warner Losh writes:
...
A TAI realization of time_t isn't POSIX, which specifically proscribes
UTC.
I think you mean prescribes.
Regardless, today the POSIX standard has a mapping (or used to, last
time I checked I was unable to find that mapping,
'Proscribe' and 'prescribe' are distinct words:
'Proscribe' means to forbid, disallow, or prohibit. School rules proscribe the
use of pencils on exams.
'Prescribe' means to lay out specifications or rules about something. In the
manner prescribed by law.
I don't know the context of
On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Skip Newhall wrote:
'Proscribe’ and 'prescribe' are distinct words:
'Proscribe' means to forbid, disallow, or prohibit. “School rules proscribe
the use of pencils on exams.”
'Prescribe' means to lay out specifications or rules about something. In the
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