On Dec 22, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On 22 Dec 2008 at 14:03, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
This does not fly because a lot of systems are legally mandated to
use the UTC timescale.
And some laws in some places mandate Greenwich Mean Time, or lots of
other things. No matter what is done with time scales in the future,
it's going to run contrary to somebody's laws somewhere.
One might also mention the usual example of attempting to legislate
physical reality, the "Indiana pi bill":
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/Localgov/Second%20Level%20pages/indiana_pi_bill.htm
It may be hard to believe (whatever countries we live in), but dig
deep enough down through our interlocking systems of laws and treaties
and you eventually reach some underlying model of physical reality :-)
Example: If the ITU proposal were to attempt to relayer civil
timekeeping on Earth onto the length of the Martian day, one can be
confident they would fail.
The issue is how close is close enough?
Rob
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