[LEAPSECS] 2007-12-31 23:59:60 Z (sic)

[John Cowan]

Rob Seaman scripsit:


> So now you admit there could be contracts in the form of treaties.  My  

> job here is done.


Ah, good!  :-)


> There is only choice in any arena.  Compulsion is another word for  

> "remedy".  Obviously an entity with an army can attempt to do anything  

> they want.  


Right enough, but there is a fundamental difference between what
sovereign entities (like natural persons) have bound themselves
by agreement with their peers to do, and what they have not.
SI, for example, is the subject of a treaty that its signatories
are bound to respect; LCT is not.


> This notion results in a merry-go-round of timezones sliding around  

> the planet - 


The world's slowest merry-go-round, certainly; the best guess seems to be
that it will make a full turn in 28 ky, within the same order of magnitude
as the precession of the equinoxes.

Note that the Date Line is a whole different matter: it need not move
with the moving time zones.  Not so very long ago, the Philippines
were still on the New World side of it.

-- 
John Cowan      cowan at ccil.org        http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
        Is it not written, "That which is written, is written"?