In <cae1xxdegehhtqobec5d5aa9ge-jc8cpfrpjqgdb1e-8qmbz...@mail.gmail.com>, on 06/07/2013 at 02:58 PM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said:
>I suspect that you two will continue in your naif views, but let me >try one more time, taking first Mr Gilmartin and then Dr Merrill. It is quaint for one who engages in spelling flames to confuse a noun with an adjective; it is even more quaint to accuse Dr. Merrill of being a naif or of having naïve views in an area where he has so much experience. >Leap seconds correct for this precession, keeping UTC seasonally >aligned, Not even close; leap seconds restore alignment of the clock with the Earth's rotation; it is leap days that restore seasonal alignment. Neither has anything to do with precession. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN