[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success

[Greg Hennessy]

>> Nothing, since they use UTC, even though many people incorrectly call it GMT.

> 

> But which "many people" are we talking about here ?


Doesn't matter in my view.


> Why is the report using GMT ?


Probably because it is a more recognizable term than UTC.



> I find theory C entirely unpersuasive: NASA is clearly not afraid

> to lecture the public about the difference between UTC and GMT.


I find your logic unpersuasive.


> If, for the argument, we assume theory A to be false, then it follows

> that whichever editor or secretary did the vandalism in theory B,

> (or for that matter: C) would have gotten a scolding lecture by one

> of the involved rocket scientist, who would have insisted that the

> change to GMT be backed out immediately.


If you think that a scientist can change the contents of a report after
the policitaly appointed staff at NASA has edited it, you don't understand
how NASA works.



> QED: rocket scientists are not educated well enough to, or can not

> be bothered to, react when they see a national british timescale

> used instead of a the proper UTC timescale.


False conclusion due to faulty logic.


> Now, do you belive me when I say that 99+% of all programmers

> wouldn't get a leap-second right if they even knew what it was ?


Then my advice is to work on getting better programmers rather
than messing with leap seconds.

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