In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Jan 30, 2011, at 3:44 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
>to imagine the reaction of some of my colleagues when they realize >the hit to their always tight budgets to deal with this artificial >crisis. A *much* larger fuss will be made about this issue than >has been made to date. I pointed out a long time ago, that if astronomers played their cards right, this would be a funding opportunity for much needed renovations... >Calling any such new timescale something other than "UTC" (or not >UT-anything, for that matter - since it no-way no-how would be a >flavor of universal time), is the easiest way for the ITU to mitigate >unintended project risks. And to not achieve the object. Dream on... -- 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
