[LEAPSECS] Conversational caffeine

[Rob Seaman]

On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> In message <489A36D6-3F2D-45B1-9A11-58D596A63E3F at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

> 

>> Civil time is based on the synodic day.

> 

> Civil time is under the control of local government and you have no

> business telling any country but your own what their civil time should

> or should not be based on.


Sorry, let me rephrase:

The definition of the word "day" (in whatever language in whatever country throughout history and into the distant future) for the great preponderance of human usages is "synodic day".  Pretending otherwise is not only insipid, it will ultimately cause more problems than the blinkered ITU decision-making-process speculates (with embarrassingly little evidence) that it might solve.