[LEAPSECS] Meeting with Wayne Whyte

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Feb 1 14:05:25 EST 2011


In message <63B1A158-8EFC-4309-A04D-E147E2025D7A at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>On Feb 1, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

>>> But Universal Time is *inherently* unpredictable. (That's its charm :-)

>>

>> No, that's merely an artifact of how it is defined.

>

>Note I said "Universal Time" not "UTC".


Note that I said "that's merely an artifact of how it is defined.",
not "The name 'Universal Time' has an unchangeable magic meaning."

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