On 17 Jan 2012 at 10:12, Ian Batten wrote: > Which is a deal breaker, because whatever a country adopts as civil > time, that's going to be the primary payload on its national > broadcast standards
And what if some countries use a solar-time-based standard and some an atomic-time-based one (as is actually the case with current law), and hence some broadcast a leapless scale and others either continue leap seconds or use some other scheme to keep their broadcasts in approximate sync with UT1? Then we'd have a complex worldwide situation where different countries' civil times are no longer round multiples of hours (or occasionally half or quarter hours) from each other, but vary by seconds (or maybe even fractions of seconds if the solar-based countries go back to rubber seconds). -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
