In message <[email protected]>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes :
>So what that means is, even if you get the redefinition of UTC you're >loudly pushing for, the legislatures of the world are free to totally >ignore it and start using something else, sundials maybe, instead. Absolutely. But given that very few, if any of these have actually legislated about leap-seconds, yet they still apply them to their local timescale from the underlying UTC timescale, I think we can safely assume that they will continue to follow UTC in this respect. The entire point of the Meter Convention and of eliminating the leap-second hack from UTC, is that we don't need to deal with each government one by one. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
