[LEAPSECS] Cheating means more planning, not less

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <0B4062CC-0E7E-407F-A856-37F9C74DC081 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>I wrote:

>

>>> The ITU has a responsibility to consider options with a long term  

>>> future.

>

>Poul-Henning Kamp writes:

>

>> ITU has no such responsibility:



>1) An organization with a limited scope (telecommunications) should  

>not control a standard with a much broader scope (timekeeping).


People should not kill, machines should not fail, intelligent
discourse should not use should in passive form.

50 years ago, I might have agreed with you (NB: cheap claim, I'm not
that old).

But in the networked global village of this age, I do not: timekeeping
is very much a telecoms issue.

In fact, that is why we even debate leap seconds now:  They are a
bump in the digital road.

Poul-Henning



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