In message <[email protected]>, Michael Deckers writes: > In 1884, an international conference decided: > > That the Conference proposes [...]
> [...] I am wondering whether > the ITU-R people may still be aware of the importance of their > decision: they are going to revise the agreement of 1884. If you read the minutes of the conference, you will find that at best it amounts to a joint proposal on "terms of reference" for geographical coordinates, and that serveral questions of timekeeping specifically a declared "out of scope" along the way. Since then the longitude and latitude has moved into the care of whoever it is that defines things lige WGS84 and the second has moved into BIPM's basement. So substance wise, there is as far as I can tell nothing left of the 1884 conference, apart from the heartfelt thanks to the US president for calling and hosting the conference. Further evidence of this is that UN registers all internation treaties its member states have entered into, in accordance with the UN charters article 102, and you can see all of these treaties at http://treaties.un.org The 1884 Longitude conference does not seem to make an appearance and therefore you will not be able to pull any country in front of The Hague for violating whatever it might say. 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
