In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>> Greg Hennessy writes: >> >>> My philosophy is that if you want/need TAI, you know where to find it. >> >> I would generally agree, but I can see the sense in keeping the >>fundamental timescale free from legislation. > >So which is it? Do we humbly petition our wise legislators, or >do we strain mightily to evade their odious fetters? UTC *is* the timescale that has been legislated already. Therefore it is also the timescale where the disruptive effects of leap seconds must be fixed. Why would you want to tangle further timescales up in international politics is beyond me... -- 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
