On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Steve Allen wrote: > > There is no practical difference now, but the passage would relinquish > almost any notion of sovereignty of the US over the characteristics of > its legal time scale. If BIPM/CGPM were to redefine the meter as > something which changed from its current value in a quadratic sense > there would be general outrage. These bills would give ITU-R leave > to redefine the notion of day and night for the US.
But wouldn't this be following a suggestion and encouragement from the US? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ NORTH IRISH SEA: NORTHEAST 5 TO 7, BACKING NORTH 4 OR 5. MODERATE OR ROUGH. RAIN OR SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
