[LEAPSECS] POSIX and C (Was: Re: ISO Influence)

[Ian Batten]

On 25 Dec 2010, at 12:48, Ben Clifford wrote:


>>

>> That's a bizarre story.  An internet source of GMT?  Hardly.

>>

>> What's the DNS name of the servers in question?

>

> I think they were somewhere under get-time.org (the address you  

> posted in

> a different message).


So dead now then, given the name has fallen into the hands of  
squatters.   A trip to archive.org implies it lasted from early 2000  
to April 2003.

Which is sort-of the point: that whatever the UK government's tactical  
movement around GMT, UTC or whatever might be, it isn't long-term, it  
isn't serious and it isn't in any way indicative of long-term  
policy.   It always strikes me as a sign of people who haven't dealt  
with government in any substantive way that they assume that some  
action by an arm of government is in some way a sign of an overall  
policy.  The idea that governments are that joined up is ironically  
shared by politicians and by wild-eyed conspiracy theorists; in the  
real world, they just can't organise to that, or indeed any, extent.

ian