In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes : >On 26 Sep 2005 at 16:09, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Other more laid back parliaments like the Danish have not been able >> to find time to revisit the issue since 18xx and still use solar >> time at some more or less random coordinate. > >You mean like the U.S. Congress? >http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/260.html > >"...the standard time of the first zone shall be based on the mean >solar time of the sixtieth degree of longitude west from >Greenwich..." (and so on for all the other zones)
Well, at least they had the sense to use a longitude divisible by 15. Not so lucky in Denmark: 50°19' >> Imagine for instance that we send a probe out of the solar system >> at seriously high speeds and it manages to get as far as 6 light >> months away: Under the current UTC rules we would be unable to >> upload a leap-second warning and get it there before it is too late. > >I would suppose that such a space probe would have little need to be >synchronized with earthly solar time, and thus might be best off >operating on TAI, with any adjustments to UTC for the sake of humans >observing it on Earth being done at the Earthly end of things. Again: merely trying to point out that the "only one timescale" argument Rob pushes doesn't work. -- 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.
