On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: > > When the calendar drifts far enough away for some future potentate to decree > that something must be done, what will be done is the insertion (or omission) > of an integral number of days in an intercalary event. The mechanism is > clear, the policy is lacking. The ITU proposal is lacking not just guidance > on policy for the equivalent clock issue, but fails to even speculate on > options for a mechanism.
The point of the calendrical comparison is that people prefer a fixed arithmetic calendar that's stable over long periods, and they don't like unpredictable observational calendars even if they are always accurate. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ FISHER GERMAN BIGHT: WEST 3 OR 4, VEERING NORTHWEST 5 TO 7, PERHAPS GALE 8 LATER IN FISHER. ROUGH BECOMING MODERATE, OCCASIONALLY SLIGHT LATER IN SOUTH GERMAN BIGHT. DRIZZLE LATER. GOOD, BECOMING MODERATE OR POOR. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
