[LEAPSECS] Government ability to carry out policy

[Gerard Ashton]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> History has shown that very few, if any, governments have been unable 

> to carry through their more or less well thought out policies in this 

> area.


Well, it can be difficult to identify government policies; various 
office holders and agencies tend to scurry about
following their own agendas. I will point to a very simple policy (?) 
that appears on the NIST website has not been implemented even within 
the governmemt: when using 12 hour time notation, the terms "12:00 AM" and
"12:00 PM" are meaningless and the terms "noon" and "midnight" should be 
used instead (the order of terms
should not be used to infer that "12:00 AM" is the same as "noon".

Gerry Ashton