John Cowan wrote on 2005-01-23 18:37 UTC:
Markus Kuhn scripsit:
UTC currently certainly has *no* two 1-h leaps every year.
There seems to be persistent confusion on what is meant by the term
leap hour.
Why?
I understand it as a secular change to the various LCT offsets,
made either all
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Van Baak writes:
Another observation is that our local newspaper always
prints Sun and Moon rise and set times. But not time
of noon. Why is this? Maybe it's just our paper (noon
implies sun and we don't see much of it here in Seattle).
Why is the instant of
On Mon 2005-01-24T00:50:10 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
Isn't knowing when noon is already a specialist operation?
I mean, most people could tell you when noon is to within
an hour or two or three, but finer than that requires a far
amount of daily mental calculation, no?
Noon has long
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Markus Kuhn writes:
You surely must have seen my detailed UTS proposal for how UTC leap
seconds should be handled trivially and safely by the overwhelming
majority of computer applications, without any special considerations
whatsoever by normal application
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Allen writes:
On Mon 2005-01-24T00:50:10 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
Isn't knowing when noon is already a specialist operation?
I mean, most people could tell you when noon is to within
an hour or two or three, but finer than that requires a far
amount of
Steve Allen scripsit:
What we are being told by the Time Lords is that, starting from a date
in the near future, knowing when noon is will also be a specialist
operation.
Already true.
For many months of the year, solar noon is closer to 1 PM, or even 1:30
PM, in a great many countries, and
