[LEAPSECS] futureofutc

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4E8EF331.215.182A5BC4 at dan.tobias.name>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes:

>On 7 Oct 2011 at 7:53, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:



>> I'm not.  About the only place that survey have been announced

>> is in Bulletin-C, which is mostly read by people who are aware

>> of Leap-Seconds.

>

>So the voting was biased towards people who were actually aware of 

>the issue... how slanted!


Well, it's more like holding a referendum on a secret law, by only
asking the people who know about the law to vote.

Just because you don't know the secret, it might still affect your life.

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