[LEAPSECS] What's the point?
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Feb 8 15:48:17 EST 2011
On 02/08/2011 13:29, Steve Allen wrote:
> On Tue 2011-02-08T13:14:27 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:
>> I'd be willing to agree that "Coupling of Civil time to the earth is
>> required." Coupling of the successor to UTC isn't required, or at least
>> there's not consensus that it is required.
> The broadcast time signals should be as uniform as is technologically
> possible according to best current practices.
>
> Most governments of the world are signatories to agreements which
> state that Universal Time is a subdivision of the mean solar day which
> ultimately produces the calendar. Unless those agreements are
> explicitly terminated the notion of time continues to deserve input
> from astronomical measurements
Treaty obligation isn't something that's come up here before. Do you
have references to which treaties apply?
Warner
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