On Mon 2011-06-20T21:51:16 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > But the point remains: ITU cannot *force* people to use their > standards, thus my comment about the dubious reach of their arm.
If I understand the history, that fact underlies the history of this whole leap second effort. The murmurings about abandoning leap seconds started with people pointing out that other people were making up and using their own, non-recommended time scales. My impression is that engineers who had to design working systems that could not tolerate leaps had long ago surmised that the international processes were too dysfunctional to satisfy their needs in any sort of timely fashion. So it was the growing awareness of that disregard of the existing recommendations which started this bandwagon rolling. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
