On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > The fact that Denmark does not follow its own law on this point > is a severe blow to your argument.
The thing that amused me about the WP7A update was Britain objecting to the demise of leap seconds. Our government abolished the Royal Greenwich Observatory because it had nothing useful left to do. Our timekeeping lab is the National Physical Laboratory. The other major part of the RGO was the Nautical Almanac Office which is now the Hydrographic Office, which produces nautical charts. I doubt we even have any government agency still involved in earth orientation - about the closest we have is the STFC which funds a number of physics and astronomy research facilities. I can't imagine it's that hard to fix our obsolete time legislation, which even the Government ignores - our official time references (MSF, the BBC, the stratim 1 NTP servers at the LINX) are all UTC, not GMT. Bah. On the other hand, perhaps the relevant civil servant doesn't want to put a time-related bill in front of parliament, because they'll probably start blethering about BST, whether the Scots can live with CET, when the Easter Act will be put into force, et cetera ad nauseam, until time runs out and the bill never gets enacted. Bah. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ HEBRIDES BAILEY FAIR ISLE FAEROES SOUTHEAST ICELAND SOUTHERLY OR SOUTHWESTERLY VEERING WESTERLY 5 TO 7, OCCASIONALLY GALE 8 IN BAILEY AND SOUTHEAST ICELAND, PERHAPS GALE 8 LATER IN HEBRIDES, FAIR ISLE AND FAEROES. VERY ROUGH OR HIGH. OCCASIONAL RAIN THEN MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR POOR BECOMING GOOD. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
