Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > If I have 180 days to pay a loan, I have to pay it by a certain time, > UTC, on the 180th day or I'm in default. In this definition, the earth > enters into it only to the extent that UTC varies from 86400s days > during that interval. This might mean that it will be a little more or > a little less than 180 solar days.
That's assuming that the loan agreement was signed in a jurisdiction that uses UTC as the basis of its legal time. But what if it was in a jurisdiction that uses mean solar time instead? I know, I know, you and PHK will argue that it may be MST on paper but UTC in practice, but if the stakes are high enough and some bad-ass lawyers get involved to pursue it through the courts, the outcome is far from certain. MS _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
