In message <[email protected]>, Attila Kinali writes: >On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:57:45 +0000 >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Everybody but the time-lords have always been told to stay away from >> TAI in the strongest possible terms by said time-lords, who again and >> told the world to use UTC. > >May i ask what the reason was to stay away from TAI?
That is a very good question, the answers you get if you try to press this point starts with handwaving and ends with "look, just don't, OK ?" There are certainly no technical issues, so I suspect a major part of the "ban" is simply som that the metrology community do not want external constraints on TAI, so that they can change it to suit their needs without political paperwork. -- 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] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
