In message <[email protected]>, Warner Losh write s:
>The ITU standard is the standard for radio broadcast time. That's >why everybody broadcasts UTC (+/- some fixed offset) today. To >conform with international standards, they would broadcast the new >timescale. Well, there it gets "interesting". A lot of technical treaties and regulations say UTC in no uncertain words, for instance in air-space regulations. I am pretty certain that creating a new timescale and mandating its transmission over for instance WWV[B] and DCF77 would give a lot of interesting issues where ATC facilities are time synchronized to the new scale, but should have been to the UTC scale. I can't imagine any delegate to the ITU being stupid enough to put his name on that idea. -- 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
