On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Steve Allen wrote:
> On Mon 2011-11-14T22:21:09 +0000, Zefram hath writ:
>> What do list members seriously imagine would be entailed by the intention to
>> "suppress TAI"?
>
> Irritate every user and vendor of IEEE 1588 systems in the same fashion as
> the draft revision of ITU-R TF.460 does for UTC users.
I thought Steve was going to point out that for this talking point of the spin
doctors as with the notion of a leap minute, that "the cake is a lie". See,
for example, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" by John Maynard Keynes:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15776/15776-h/15776-h.htm
Under Chapter II, section 3, "The Psychology of Society":
"...the virtue of the cake was that it was never to be consumed,
neither by you nor by your children after you."
Further: "And so the cake increased; but to what end was not clearly
contemplated."
If UTC is redefined to be TAI+offset, it certainly would appear desirable to
remove the duplicity in the definition. Rather, it seems likelier that both
will be kept around to confuse the issue even more.
I bet it's not a very good cake anyway...
Rob
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