On Wed 2010-11-03T18:22:16 +0000, Tony Finch hath writ: > That is very strange wording, given that UTC is specified by the ITU-R but > only endorsed by the CGPM. Is it that the BIPM has a lot of operational > responsibility for UTC, and they are an agency under the authority of the > CGPM?
Remember that the standing CGPM resolution says that UTC is mean solar time. http://www1.bipm.org/jsp/en/ViewCGPMResolution.jsp?CGPM=15&RES=5 So is this a tacit acknowledgment that this new US law was intended to be conformant with the previous law wherein congress explicitly specified that US legal time was mean solar time? Again we would need judge and jury to answer. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
