On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Tony Finch wrote:
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I may be misremembering, I thought the longitude conference was in 1884 ?
Yes, but by that time there had already been 40 years of railway time in
the UK. We officially switched to a
Poul-Henning Kamp said:
So here is an instructive little table:
Finagle Subject to
FactorUnit/Resolution politics since
Leap days 86400 sec. 2000 bc.
A long flight was time to really read Ken Seidelmann's book and part of
Woolard and Clemence, Spherical Astronomy. Subsequent exchanges with
Ken give me a new understanding. (Probably an old understanding for the
rest of you.)
When we solve equations approximating physical processes, we are
On Tue 2010-11-02T13:30:42 -0400, Finkleman, Dave hath writ:
We must correlate time as perceived in our analyses
with the temporal relationships among objects in the universe.
For the sake of operational systems I would phrase this as the
requirement that all precision intercomparisons of time,
In message 3b33e89c51d2de44be2f0c757c656c88099aa...@mail02.stk.com, Finklema
n, Dave writes:
It is a hierarchy each level of which is sufficient for a range of
applications. Every time we solve dynamical equations, we are defining
a unique time scale and time interval based on things such as
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Finagle Subject to
FactorUnit/Resolution politics since
Leap days 86400 sec. 2000 bc.
Timezones 3600
In message alpine.lsu.2.00.1011021839340.6...@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk, Tony Fi
nch writes:
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Finagle Subject to
Factor Unit/Resolution politics since
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I may be misremembering, I thought the longitude conference was in 1884 ?
Yes, but by that time there had already been 40 years of railway time in
the UK. We officially switched to a single time zone in 1880, but local
mean solar time had already
In message 211ee304-6f59-40a1-837f-3f8359f68...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Except that your suggestion is that we can ignore the whole thing
because the wisdom of local governance will sort it all out with
kaleidoscopically shifting timezone policies.
Which was exactly
