"Gerard Ashton" <[email protected]> wrote: |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: | |> This approach would satisfy all parties: humans can continue to enjoy the |cultural achievement of a clock that exactly describes their home planet, |and engineers can use TAI for satisfying airplane schedule calculations for |businessmen. | |"Businessmen" can keep whatever time they like for internal use, but |whenever a businessman communicates with a customer or another business, the |courts will interpret any times stated as being the legal time of the |applicable jurisdiction, although in many cases the businessman and the |other parties have the option of agreeing to a different time scale. So the |businessman who uses TAI internally must either take great care to convert |this to the appropriate legal time scale when communicating to outsiders, or |must form a contract with each and every external contact to use TAI instead |of the legal time scale that would normally apply.
That doesn't sound overall interesting to me, as i personally neither like businessmen nor lawyers having plenty of negative examples at hand. Of course this is a superficial view, i am able to give you examples of actual characters in each profession (even a strong and noble one regarding a judge), but exceptions confirm the rule. I cannot imagine you wouldn't agree that having CLOCK_TAI (and CLOCK_LEAPDRIFT) make things easier. Not an easier way than not throwing away already available information before it hits the wire. So what do you want? No, i cannot build a satellite. And i will not speak against leap seconds only because they are managed by someone located in France. --steffen _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
