In message <[email protected]>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes :
>The places that do use UTC as their official standard most >likely do so because it's "good enough for government work" as an >approximation of GMT. I think the places that use GMT would be very surprised to hear that the English Parliament decides what time it should be in their country. >It would be a big "bait and switch" to suddenly plunge those places onto >a time standard that isn't moored in any way to solar time. First: Drop the drama. Second: They are not "plunged", they get to vote on the issue. Third: UTC has been changed semantics twice in the last 50 years, there is no reason to think it will not do so again long before its difference from earth rotation angle bothers anybody. -- 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
