In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >The accumulation of a leap deficit is thus roughly linear over the >next couple of centuries, [...]
Lets see, a couple of centuries ago the Napoleonic wars where in full swing, I wonder how many of the rules and regulations laid down back then we still follow to the word, without having refined, reconsidered or replaced the with more modern approaches. The metre convention from 1875 has barely ever managed to get the ink to dry before somebody fiddles something in it. Any rulemaking we may propose, that our grandchildren or later will have to implement, is at best a pointless waste of time, they're going to do it their own way anyway. All we have to do is to leave them a clear notice what the issue is, then they can decide if it is a problem and how they want to fix it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
