On Mon 2011-12-05T21:13:31 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > So his guess was that "the TF460 proposal comes up, people wave > their paddles, and that's the end of it"
The CCIR volumes indicate that most of the votes simply go unanimously, but on two occasions that is not what they record for previous instances of Recommendation 460. In the proceedings of the 1970 plenary assembly which produced the original version of 460 it is recorded that the words "or integer multiples thereof" were deleted during the process of approval. In the proceedings of the 1978 Plenary Assembly the interchange during the voting for 460-2 has more detail. It records the actions of the delegate of Japan, the observer for the IAU, the delegate of Switzerland, and the (German) chairman of Study Group 7. These interruptions in the smooth flow of voting resulted in the insertion of parentheses around the statement "GMT may be regarded as the general equivalent of UT". The context for this is that in that session the delegates were also voting to create recommendations 535 (UTC to replace GMT in all CCIR documents) and 536 (citing the 1975 CGPM Resolution 5 as justification to use the abbreviation UTC for all languages). So sometimes the delegates to the Plenary Assembly do more than just assent, and 460 in particular shows examples of this. -- 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
