In
<cae1xxdegehhtqobec5d5aa9ge-jc8cpfrpjqgdb1e-8qmbz...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 06/07/2013
at 02:58 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> 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)
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