Re: what time is it, legally?
Rob Seaman wrote: I'm given to wonder how much of the friction on this mailing list is simply due to the shortcomings in the technology that implements it. I've appended a message I sent in August with four plots attached. Can someone tell me whether it is readable now or was successfully delivered back then? I rummaged around on the list archive and on archives accessibly via google and find no copy of this message that survived the communications medium. In Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux it looked fine in both your original post and the repeat you attached - so any problems are down to the reader and not the transmission, I think. Ed.
Re: what time is it, legally?
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Ed Davies wrote: Rob Seaman wrote: I'm given to wonder how much of the friction on this mailing list is simply due to the shortcomings in the technology that implements it. I've appended a message I sent in August with four plots attached. Can someone tell me whether it is readable now or was successfully delivered back then? I rummaged around on the list archive and on archives accessibly via google and find no copy of this message that survived the communications medium. In Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux it looked fine in both your original post and the repeat you attached - so any problems are down to the reader and not the transmission, I think. Ed. Fine on Solaris 10. Pete.
Re: what time is it, legally?
From: Peter Bunclark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] what time is it, legally? Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:05:00 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob, On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Ed Davies wrote: Rob Seaman wrote: I'm given to wonder how much of the friction on this mailing list is simply due to the shortcomings in the technology that implements it. I've appended a message I sent in August with four plots attached. Can someone tell me whether it is readable now or was successfully delivered back then? I rummaged around on the list archive and on archives accessibly via google and find no copy of this message that survived the communications medium. In Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux it looked fine in both your original post and the repeat you attached - so any problems are down to the reader and not the transmission, I think. Ed. Fine on Solaris 10. I concurr, it worked nice on Debian Linux using Mew in Emacs. I had nice graphs and everything. You need to look elsewere (i.e. more locally) to find the fault. Cheers, Magnus
Re: what time is it, legally?
On Dec 12, 2006, at 5:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To avoid such failures in the future, Tom Van Baak has agreed to take over its management and he is now working on the technical issues involving the migration. Thanks for looking into that. Thanks to Tom for accepting another (nearly) thankless chore. Thanks to everybody who checked their mail folders. I'm relieved to find the issue appears archival only, not a problem with the initial distribution. Would hate to think of all of you being deprived of my pellucid wisdom :–) Rob
Re: what time is it, legally?
On Tue 2006-12-12T09:18:57 -0400, Richard B. Langley hath writ: For an overview of some of the legal issues of time see GPS and the Legal Traceability of Time by Judah Levine in my GPS World Innovation column, January 2001. -- Richard Langley Professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation and Contributing Editor, GPS World Magazine viz http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.january01.pdf -- Steve Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick ObservatoryNatural Sciences II, Room 165Lat +36.99858 University of CaliforniaVoice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06014 Santa Cruz, CA 95064http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m
