[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 53, Issue 12

[Warner Losh]

I'm in the "everybody agreeing on a time" camp as well.

This is much more important than the time measuring an earth orientation, being a pure interval or anything else.  If everybody agrees on the rules, and everybody follows them, we're in a much happier place.

Astronomers may disagree, and talk about synodic days, but DSL, China and operations at the poles demonstrate that the C in UTC is much more important to people's daily lives than the UT part.

Please note: this is an argument for everybody following the same standard, not for any agenda pushing what I may or may not like everybody to agree on.

Warner


On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:


> ...bearing in mind that "everyone" includes the nearly seven billion people who are completely unaware that a discussion is occurring and who would be perplexed to understand that the idea here is that the clocks on their wrists, walls, computers, and bedside stands will have nothing whatsoever to do with the obvious diurnal cadence of their lives...

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> On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Finkleman, Dave wrote:

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>> I agree very much with Poul-Henning.  If everyone could agree on a well

>> defined time scale, properly qualified, it doesn't matter what that is.

>> In my life there have always been people who will not collaborate or

>> compromise for reasons incomprehensible to me.

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