[LEAPSECS] tinkering with time ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <5A6AA69B-16AB-4896-A0F0-825E5CFC74DD at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>On Jan 30, 2011, at 3:44 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:



>to imagine the reaction of some of my colleagues when they realize

>the hit to their always tight budgets to deal with this artificial

>crisis.  A *much* larger fuss will be made about this issue than

>has been made to date.


I pointed out a long time ago, that if astronomers played their cards
right, this would be a funding opportunity for much needed renovations...


>Calling any such new timescale something other than "UTC" (or not

>UT-anything, for that matter - since it no-way no-how would be a

>flavor of universal time), is the easiest way for the ITU to mitigate

>unintended project risks.


And to not achieve the object.

Dream on...


-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.