I'm in the "everybody agreeing on a time" camp as well. This is much more important than the time measuring an earth orientation, being a pure interval or anything else. If everybody agrees on the rules, and everybody follows them, we're in a much happier place.
Astronomers may disagree, and talk about synodic days, but DSL, China and operations at the poles demonstrate that the C in UTC is much more important to people's daily lives than the UT part. Please note: this is an argument for everybody following the same standard, not for any agenda pushing what I may or may not like everybody to agree on. Warner On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Rob Seaman wrote: > ...bearing in mind that "everyone" includes the nearly seven billion people > who are completely unaware that a discussion is occurring and who would be > perplexed to understand that the idea here is that the clocks on their > wrists, walls, computers, and bedside stands will have nothing whatsoever to > do with the obvious diurnal cadence of their lives... > > On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Finkleman, Dave wrote: > >> I agree very much with Poul-Henning. If everyone could agree on a well >> defined time scale, properly qualified, it doesn't matter what that is. >> In my life there have always been people who will not collaborate or >> compromise for reasons incomprehensible to me. > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs > > _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
