Rob Seaman scripsit:
0) Who owns the civil time standards?
The people of the world, as expressed through their various national
and sub-national governments. (In the U.S., the federal government
specifies what time zones exist, but the states decide when and
where to adhere to them.)
On Mon 2003/01/27 18:21:02 -, Ed Davies wrote
in a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Everything would be a lot simpler and more reliable if all systems
could work with a single simple universal time scale which:
1. Has SI length seconds.
2. Has minutes of 60 seconds, hours of 3'600 seconds and
Dr. Mark Calabretta scripsit:
Much of the problem boils down to the question of why we would want
to continue to pretend that a mean solar day has exactly 86400 SI
seconds when in fact, it has 86400+epsilon SI seconds.
I at least care that a *civil* day be 86400 SI seconds in length.
Mean
