[LEAPSECS] A consolidated approach.

2010-12-13 Thread Finkleman, Dave
I wisely avoided contributing the last few days' debate. Ken Seidelmann, John Seago, and I have been working to overcome the deficiencies in the process used to formulate the new ITU-R recommendation. As we said in our paper last summer, the goals are to assure that major stakeholders are

Re: [LEAPSECS] A consolidated approach.

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Allen
On Mon 2010-12-13T18:52:18 +, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: Actually, I'm pretty sure time is entirely independent of which way you orient the Earth. It is barely a decade during which the literature and nomenclature of the astronomical community has explicitly recognized that truth. Even

Re: [LEAPSECS] A consolidated approach.

2010-12-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20101213190904.ga1...@ucolick.org, Steve Allen writes: On Mon 2010-12-13T18:52:18 +, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: Actually, I'm pretty sure time is entirely independent of which way you orient the Earth. It is barely a decade during which the literature and nomenclature of the

Re: [LEAPSECS] A consolidated approach.

2010-12-13 Thread Rob Seaman
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Actually, I'm pretty sure time is entirely independent of which way you orient the Earth. Well, Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein might be among those who quibble :-) Threads on this mailing list (and the original Navy list) have often made an implicit assumption that