[LEAPSECS] Legal violation for failure to know sunrise/sunset to nearest minute

[Gerard Ashton]

On 9/20/2011 3:38 PM, Ian Batten wrote:

> They're hardly going to say "we publish the regulations, but don't worry, we don't enforce them", are they?  If they're enforced to the nearest minute, it shouldn't be hard for them to find a court case in which they were enforced to the nearest minute.

I'm inclined to agree with "They're hardly going to say 'we publish the 
regulations, but don't worry, we don't enforce them', are they?"
but that is just my own personal perception of how government agencies 
work; I have not a shred of proof.

I strongly disagree with "If they're enforced to the nearest minute, it 
shouldn't be hard for them to find a court case
in which they were enforced to the nearest minute." So far as I know, 
such cases are not available online. My understanding
is that only appellate court decisions are online, and then, only the 
most important appellate courts, or recent cases.
I would not be surprised if the basic facts, such as a person of a 
certain name being convicted of a certain offense on
a certain date being available in some kind of log or index at the 
courthouse, but the details of the case, such as
how many minutes elapsed from the close of legal hunting hours to the 
time of the offense could be contained
on a tape recording of the trial, perhaps never having been put in text 
form.

Of course, if there is a search strategy I'm overlooking, feel free to 
point it out.

Gerard Ashton