In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Nov 17, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> A) The majority of rolling stock built in the last 10 years >> or >> B) A few astronomical telescopes. >> >> Actually, I don't wonder, I know the answer to that one: You can >> build several ELT's for what A) will cost. > >No, you don't know the answer to this. Yes, In fact I do know the answer to this: First: I have an estimate on the recertification cost from a credible industry source. Second: I have a budgetary price for the ELT Third: I learned division in school. Given the imprecsions on the estimates, specifying the result as "several ELT's" is a sensible treatment of one significant digit. >And you don't think they should invest even one penny to understand >potential dependencies they have that Coordinated Universal Time >remain a type of Universal Time? If they thought there were a credible indication that any such dependencies existed, they probably would. The fact that you didn't include a strawman for such an indication, seen in the historical context that railroads practically invented 1-hour wide timezones, counter-indicates such dependencies. -- 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
