[LEAPSECS] civil-solar correlation with TI

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> Whatever the preferences of the ITU, they will discover that it is

> simply unacceptable to allow local dates to vary secularly from civil

> timekeeping dates.


Civil time *is* a form of local time.


> Only one - standard time based on mean solar time - has ever been shown

> to be *practically* workable.


Two: standard time plus daylight saving time is the other (provided DST
is applied according to national rules).

Tony.
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