On Jan 4, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Michael Sokolov wrote: > What is the "local civil time" for someone who doesn't hold citizenship in > any country and lives on a boat that continuously circumnavigates the world?
Perhaps Philip Nolan could have told us: http://www.bartleby.com/310/6/1.html :-) > I choose to define the legal/civil time for my one-man micronation to > be tied to some NATURAL phenomenon, something that is NOT subject to > man's whim. Hence man-made UTC is not acceptable. Mean solar time is > a natural phenomenon, so it's acceptable. The subject line of this thread and the general remit of the conversation on leapsecs concerns wide scale standardization and infrastructure issues. I don't believe any option discussed here - whatever our positions on the issues - will constrain such a situation. That is, for civil timekeeping to exist a civilization (e.g., China) is required. Rob _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
