In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes: >The ITU-R's only options are: > UTC with leap seconds (status quo) >and > a new time scale which is continuous in value to the current > UTC at the instant of change from old to new (no leap at > the transition)
Says you and what army ? The ITU can do pretty much any damn thing they can get through their general assembly, what with them being a UN organization and all that... If they want to put decimal ours on UTC starting on the GenSecs birthday, that's fully within their power. The question is if anybody is going to follow their *recommendation*. It's not like their recommendations have much legal weight, remember the OSI protocols ? Remember the Modem Wars ? -- 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
