On 02/08/2011 13:29, Steve Allen wrote:
On Tue 2011-02-08T13:14:27 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:
I'd be willing to agree that "Coupling of Civil time to the earth is
required." Coupling of the successor to UTC isn't required, or at least
there's not consensus that it is required.
The broadcast time signals should be as uniform as is technologically
possible according to best current practices.
Most governments of the world are signatories to agreements which
state that Universal Time is a subdivision of the mean solar day which
ultimately produces the calendar. Unless those agreements are
explicitly terminated the notion of time continues to deserve input
from astronomical measurements
Treaty obligation isn't something that's come up here before. Do you
have references to which treaties apply?
Warner
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