[LEAPSECS] one signature brings UTC to US

[Rob Seaman]

On Aug 10, 2007, at 3:15 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:


> The EU does translations, but each national government transposes the

> Directive into its own legislative system.


This thread is an excellent demonstration of why civil timekeeping  
legislation should reference an unambiguous natural phenomenon like  
"mean solar time" :–)  As with Carl Sagan's missives to the aliens on  
the Voyager spacecraft, the natural world is a natural language.

Rob Seaman
NOAO