Re: text book example why Leapseconds are bad

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:42:31AM +, Peter Bunclark wrote: > And these "Rocket Scientists" can't even spell. Perhaps they can't read, I hope you are now aware that your spelling on this list from this point forward now needs to be flawles

Re: Things to do at about 2005-12-31 23:59:60Z

year, 2005, will be one second longer than any year since 1998.", since 2000 and 2004 were leap years and were longer than 2005 by 86,399 seconds. :-) -- Randy Kaelber[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scientific Software Engineer Mars Space Flight Facility, Departme

Re: Lighter Evenings (Experiment) Bill [HL]

the same time all over the world, and nobody having a permanaent "advantage" of having the timezone match their geography. Everybody should be happy, or at least equally miserable. -- Randy Kaelber[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scientific Software Engineer

Re: a system that fails spectacularly

interplanetary missions, I'd be blissfully ignorant of the leap seconds issue, too! -- Randy Kaelber[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scientific Software Engineer Mars Space Flight Facility, Department of Geological Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Re: ABC leapsec article

sorts of conclusions, and even then it's not terribly scientific. -- Randy Kaelber[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scientific Software Engineer Mars Space Flight Facility, Department of Geological Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Re: Comments on Civil Time decision tree

time. It's relatively close to Earth and holds a more or less constant distance from it. It seems that STEREO is going to have a more complicated relationship with a geocentric coordinate frame. -- Randy Kaelber[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scientific Softwar

Re: Comments on Civil Time decision tree

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:13:18AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy Kaelber writes: > > >As an aside, most of the people who were/are on Mars Rover teams that I > >talked to really liked the extra 30+ minutes a day. The only thing

Re: Comments on Civil Time decision tree

teams that I talked to really liked the extra 30+ minutes a day. The only thing they didn't like was when mundane earthbound things conflicted (It's 4 am, but I don't want to eat at Denny's and I really need to get to the bank.) with their Martian schedule. Astronauts on

Re: Comments on Civil Time decision tree

Right now, the clock on Mars Odyssey (as I type this) should be reading 2/0812228033. Dealing with things like leap seconds, local time conventions, and other time conversions are all handled here on Earth. -- Randy Kaelber[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scientific Softw