Tom Van Baak wrote:
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Mecca+super+clock+threatens+call+time/3382873/story.html
Now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged by a
gargantuan new clock being built in Mecca,
Displaying GMT+3h. They haven't quite figured out this rebellion
In message 20100811092847.gf1...@lake.fysh.org, Zefram writes:
Tom Van Baak wrote:
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Mecca+super+clock+threatens+call+time/3382873/story.html
They haven't quite figured out this rebellion business.
You can almost imagine the demonstrators shuffle down the sidewalk,
Zefram said:
Western scientists have challenged such assertions, noting that the
Magnetic North Pole is on a line of longitude that passes through
Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica.
And there was me thinking it might be on a line of longitude that
*doesn't* pass
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 09:54 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message 20100811094933.gd26...@davros.org, Clive D.W. Feather writes:
Zefram said:
Western scientists have challenged such assertions, noting that the
Magnetic North Pole is on a line of longitude that passes through
On Wed 2010-08-11T17:30:43 +0200, Paul Sheer hath writ:
The way I see it, the ITU has the choice to gain or loose 1 billion
customers of their standard.
Interpreting that would be diplomacy. The constraints placed on the
SG7 process by its chair have denied the validity of inputs which are
not
These people are creating their own clock that,
1. will not have 1s accuracy
2. is astronomically based
3. is not in sync with UTC
I would not assume these points were true based on the article
referenced.
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Interpreting that would be diplomacy. The constraints placed on the
SG7 process by its chair have denied the validity of inputs which are
not technical.
to me this means that a group of ten is going to decide for
the other 6 billion on the premise that people are there to
serve the needs
