Rob Seaman scripsit: > (Also, if these technical projects haven't demonstrated the capacity > to deal with leap seconds, why should we believe they will demonstrate > any greater capacity to deal with DUT > 0.9s?)
Because they may well not give a hoot about DUT, or the rotation of that very poor clock, the Earth. > In the case of abandoning leap seconds, however, it is every > community that uses time-of-day (meaning everybody, more-or-less) Almost 1 out of 6 citizens of Earth lives in China, the whole of which has an LCT of UTC+8h despite apparent solar times varying from UT+5h to UT+9h. The willingness of almost the whole of North American and Europe to move a full hour away from its standard time every summer is also indicative, as are the facts on the ground in Easter Island, whose civil time is always a good two hours ahead of apparent solar time -- its longitude is that of San Diego, but its LCT is roughly the LMT of Chicago. I continue to not believe that keeping LCT at a good approximation to LMT is all that important to most people who are not astronomers, navigators, or other specialists. -- As you read this, I don't want you to feel John Cowan sorry for me, because, I believe everyone [EMAIL PROTECTED] will die someday. -- From a Nigerian-type http://www.reutershealth.com scam spam I got http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
