[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <495A7453.29508.11EE2652 at dan.tobias.name>
            "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan at tobias.name> 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 think you may have missed a subtle aspect of phk's point.

If rocket-scientists can't get the relatively simple nomenclature of
this topic right, what hope is there for the average engineer?

Warner