[LEAPSECS] "China move could call time on GMT"

[Rob Seaman]

Like I said, playing politics.  I suppose several hundred local governments could all choose separately to restore the sanity to the system that the ITU is busily removing.

On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> In message <33BC948F-C443-469B-AA69-4C18093D5CD6 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

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>> Time-of-day is and will remain an angle.

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> They are not concerned with time-of-day, they are concerned with UTC.

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> Time-Of-Day, in most places is

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> 	UTC + politically_chosen_constant(t)

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> And they are not touching the second part, which is responsible for

> aligning TOD with the sun, at all.