[LEAPSECS] Ghosts of Leap-seconds past and future

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <83E442CD-4A84-4493-8E60-867AF882B0FE at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>I wrote:

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>>> Which is why the international civil timekeeping standard should be tied to physical reality.

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>...but Poul-Henning Kamp said:

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>> 1. There is no "international civil timekeeping", civil timekeeping

>> is a national legislative matter.

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>and later appeared to be arguing the exact opposite point:

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>> The entire point of the Meter Convention and of eliminating the

>> leap-second hack from UTC, is that we don't need to deal with each

>> government one by one.


Ahh, how much time do we need to spend on you trying to twist words Rob ?

Is this waste of time what you call "proper engineering" ?

Poul-Henning

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