In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman >> writes: >> >>> Put it this way. Diurnal periods are ubiquitous in our cultural >norms and the technical systems underlying them. >> >> That is a value judgment which should be left to governments. > >No, it is a patently obvious fact.
You don't get to decide if it is a fact, of if it is, if it is an unchangeable one: That is an issue for each nation and their government. See Chinas timezones as exhibit 1. 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
