[LEAPSECS] "China move could call time on GMT"

[Rob Seaman]

On Jan 4, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Michael Sokolov wrote:


> What is the "local civil time" for someone who doesn't hold citizenship in

> any country and lives on a boat that continuously circumnavigates the world?


Perhaps Philip Nolan could have told us:  http://www.bartleby.com/310/6/1.html :-)


> I choose to define the legal/civil time for my one-man micronation to

> be tied to some NATURAL phenomenon, something that is NOT subject to

> man's whim.  Hence man-made UTC is not acceptable.  Mean solar time is

> a natural phenomenon, so it's acceptable.


The subject line of this thread and the general remit of the conversation on leapsecs concerns wide scale standardization and infrastructure issues.  I don't believe any option discussed here - whatever our positions on the issues - will constrain such a situation.  That is, for civil timekeeping to exist a civilization (e.g., China) is required.

Rob