[LEAPSECS] Get off my lawn!

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2011-06-20T21:51:16 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:

> But the point remains:  ITU cannot *force* people to use their

> standards, thus my comment about the dubious reach of their arm.


If I understand the history, that fact underlies the history of this
whole leap second effort.  The murmurings about abandoning leap
seconds started with people pointing out that other people were making
up and using their own, non-recommended time scales.

My impression is that engineers who had to design working systems that
could not tolerate leaps had long ago surmised that the international
processes were too dysfunctional to satisfy their needs in any sort of
timely fashion.  So it was the growing awareness of that disregard of
the existing recommendations which started this bandwagon rolling.

--
Steve Allen                 <sla at ucolick.org>                WGS-84 (GPS)
UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB   Natural Sciences II, Room 165    Lat  +36.99855
1156 High Street            Voice: +1 831 459 3046           Lng -122.06015
Santa Cruz, CA 95064        http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/     Hgt +250 m