Oops - that last one got away while I was trying to quit HTML!!!
Le 28.01.2015 11:09, Poul-Henning Kamp a écrit :
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In message <[email protected]>, Brooks Harris writes:
It says - "Until now the solution has been to introduce a 'leap
second', in other words to stop 'official/scientific' time
(Co-ordinated Universal Time, 'UTC'), for one second every so often."
yes. completely incorrect.
Hold the phone. "to stop 'official/scientific' time"?!? How worrisome
is it that the chair of the committee considering the Leap Second
question could make a statement like that?
Hold the yelling: What are the chances that we can ever implement
leap-seconds in a responsible fashion, if even a such persons do
not grasp what it is ?
Probably not so much a misunderstanding as inability to communicate. I
wonder sometimes whether the issue is in the term Leap , which implies
jumping over something, whereas the French term "intercalaire" indicates
inserting which in most cases better describes what is going on.
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