In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes:
>> 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
>
>In there I do not find the ITU-R's Radio Regulations, so perhaps the
>whole point of this mail list is moot, for we are not bound to follow
>them?
Uhm, you have not actually read the text of the proposal ?
All ITU-r *Recommendations* follow this form:
The ITU Radiocommunication assembly,
considering
bla. bla. bla.
recommends
bla. bla. bla.
The only difference being that a few luck of them, have the work
"unanimously" inserted before "recommends" after the vote.
>In there I also do not find Meter Convention, so perhaps the UN list
>is not comprehensive. The Meter Convention does say this
>http://www1.bipm.org/jsp/en/ViewCGPMResolution.jsp?CGPM=15&RES=5
Notice again the language:
"judges that this usage can be strongly endorsed"
Other hint: The Meter Convention has not been able to metrify USA yet.
QED: Governments are free to fuck up their timekeeping as they see fit.
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