[LEAPSECS] No leapseconds on trains

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Thu Nov 17 13:13:25 EST 2011


On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> You seem to have misunderstood something very fundamental here:


You are the one that started by describing a Danish project management scandal.


> UIC is the International Union of Railroads. UIC 556 affects all railroads in the world.


So that means that a telecommunications process that failed to consult this august body is serving their best interests? And that investigating the actual effects of the actual change (to redefine UTC to no longer provide the mean solar time that railroads were instrumental in promulgating more than a century ago) is somehow "silly"?

Rob



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