Last Monday's (2003-08-25) edition of the German news magazine Der
Spiegel (Nr. 35/2003) has an article by Manfred Dworschak on ITU SRG 7A
and the leap second debate on pages 94-95.
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,262918,00.html
A bibliography of previous media is growing on my leap seconds
Rob Seaman wrote:
One would expect that at least
as many applications worldwide depend on time-of-day as depend
on date formats.
Sorry, but this one doesn't expect anything of the sort. It
seems to me that many more applications are interested in time
durations than in the exact
Steve Allen says:
As news coverage goes, the apparent tone underlying that interview was
of the oh God they've stuck a camera and microphone in my face and I
can't extrapolate a random variable with a quadratic trend in my head
ilk.
Like many software topics, the reporter (and likely the
John Cowan opines:
I continue to not believe that keeping LCT at a good approximation
to LMT is all that important to most people who are not astronomers,
navigators, or other specialists.
Fine. Shouldn't this belief be verified before implementing a major
change to the standard?
Either the
Steve Allen said:
CNN is broadcasting the video form of this story today
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/22/time.boulden/index.html
I surmise that Mr. Catchpole was not prepared with the figures.
He also seems to be unaware of the legal status of GMT in the UK.
[Incidentally, if I
- Original Message -
From: Steve Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:35 AM
Subject: [LEAPSECS] more media coverage
CNN is broadcasting the video form of this story today
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/22/time.boulden/index.html
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