Neal McBurnett scripsit: > To sum it up, PLEASE don't fundamentally change the DEFINITION of UTC, > or you risk whole new kinds of confusion. Hopefully by now the folks > on this list that don't like leap seconds at least have agreed that > any change should be to a new time scale like TI, and announced > decades in advance.
I certainly do, and I hope everyone else who is down-leaps does too. TI is a good name (you can read it as "TAI - A" where A is a constant to be decided when the scale is inaugurated). -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [T]here is a Darwinian explanation for the refusal to accept Darwin. Given the very pessimistic conclusions about moral purpose to which his theory drives us, and given the importance of a sense of moral purpose in helping us cope with life, a refusal to believe Darwin's theory may have important survival value. --Ian Johnston
