[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <495A7453.29508.11EE2652 at dan.tobias.name>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes

:

>On 31 Dec 2008 at 0:12, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:



>> Page XVII, the glossary has an entry

>> 

>> 		GMT Greenwich Mean Time

>> 

>> But it has no entry for UTC, UT1 any other UT (or leap seconds).

>

>So the solution is to cause the civil-time standard to have no 

>resemblance to actual GMT, so that when the ignorant masses continue 

>to mistakenly call it GMT they'll be even more wrong than they now 

>are?


I don't think you are entirely up to speed here.

What would NASA have done, had the British Parliament done something
silly to GMT in the middle of the shuttle landing ?

(You *do* know that GMT is a local British Timescale, right ?)


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