In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Bunclark writes: >On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> On the other hand, even if we agree on one standard, or even just >> leave UTC as it is, are the astronomers and geophysiscists going >> to abandon UT1 ? >> >> If so, then this is the first I've heard about it. > >Of course not.
And that was exactly my point: "civil" and "scientific" timekeeping was two different issues and they have different semantics and needs. Most of this argument is still centered around the unarticulated question: "who owns UTC". Wouldn't it be fair if the non-scientific (ie: civil) world told the astronomers (and any other scientists) to bugger off and not impose scientific requirements on civil time ? After all, scientists have several timescales of their own already, and plenty of means to implement them, whereas UTC is the only agreed upon and widely available civil timescale. -- 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.
