In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >No - by standardizing the meaning of the terms, we made it possible >to easily convert between all the flavors of solar time using closed >form algorithms accurate to whatever precision is required.
No, you can not tell me today how many seconds between now and 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC and that is the whole problem. >Civil time should remain based on time-of-day. Failing that, civil >time should be called anything *except* UTC. They can call it UBT >for "Universal Bureaucratic Time" if they want. Considering that we have finally managed to beat UTC into the skull of people and all but made them forget GMT, changing the name would be the most pointless and waste-full excercise I can imagine. The entire point here is to make UTC be a usable timescale without having to put all military personal, all civil servants, all school teachers, all emergency response personel and all programmers through a reeducation. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
