In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:
> - It is the attempt to pretend otherwise that is causing the friction. If you want to boil it all the way down there, the friction started when Harrisson built his 4th clock, and ever since astronomy has lost relevance for timekeeping. Leap-seconds is the last fig-leaf that still connects astronomy with timekeeping and thus a minority of astronomers keep fighting a fight that most reasonable astronomers have accepted as lost. -- 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
