Overall he seems to make a good philosophical argument why solar time is
good for humans. But his conclusion seems confused.
... let the airlines and the Internet companies use TAI.
Ah, the airlines already use GPS (TAI-like) for navigation, and local
civil time for scheduling, while the
: Kevin Birth kevin.bi...@qc.cuny.edu
To: Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com; Leap Second Discussion List
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Solar time is good for humans, but as everyone on this list knows, solar
time
Brooks Harris wrote:
In other words, let them simply stop adjusting for for leap seconds.
Let the atomic clocks become progressively more wrong.
Whoa! Hold the phone! What do you mean? Adjust TAI's frequency to
match Earth?!?
No, he's clearly proposing to leave TAI exactly as it is, and just to
Clive D.W. Feather cl...@davros.org wrote:
Poul-Henning Kamp said:
We have a saying in danish Skoma'r bliv ved din læst which translates
to Cobbler stay at your workbench.
The English word is last: The cobbler should stick to his last. Almost
certainly with the same derivation.
If you
In message 5500731c.3080...@edlmax.com, Brooks Harris writes:
Overall he seems to make a good philosophical argument why solar time is
good for humans. But his conclusion seems confused.
We have a saying in danish Skoma'r bliv ved din læst which translates
to Cobbler stay at your
Poul-Henning Kamp said:
We have a saying in danish Skoma'r bliv ved din læst which translates
to Cobbler stay at your workbench.
The English word is last: The cobbler should stick to his last. Almost
certainly with the same derivation.
The fact that he is a lawyer seems to have nothing, if
On Mar 11, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote:
The entire purpose of UTC is to provide a single timescale for all
human-related activity.
Well… ;-)
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