On Dec 20, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[email protected]>, Rob
Seaman writes:
Nobody has spent a dime on investigating possible risks involved in
aircraft navigation.
That shows, if nothing else, the depth of your research.
I was obviously speaking (as I have for nine years) of the context of
the limp yet relentless proposal to eviscerate UTC. If somebody has
references to risk analyses (for ATC or any other industry) of
relayering UTC on something other than mean solar time, please share
them with the list. I'd be happy to delve deeper.
Turning the issue around, is there even a coherent such study of the
effects of leap seconds on ATC (or any other industry)? (Completely
ignoring the question, if you will, of whether or not aircraft
navigation might actually care about mean solar time.)
We're to understand that leap seconds "suck". Wouldn't the obvious
first step to motivating the need for a change be to demonstrate that
such a problem actually exists? And then to explore the scope of the
issue and any external scheduling constraints?
Rob
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