Re: [LEAPSECS] Types of time

From: Roger Stapleton <jrs_at_st-andrews.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:17:37 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote:

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> The current UTC system is biased in favor of your applications
> and other astronomically based ones, and against the rest of us.

Yup ;-)

Got it in one! Which is why I am interested in the outcome since, if the
bias changes, I have to do more work :(

I don't mind if things do change since I can, at this stage, design in a
hook to hang any change of offset from Local Mean Time to UTC. It may
never be used, but it will give me some satisfaction to know I thought
ahead and included it. That is until I come to update the program in a
year or two and can't understand what it is all about.

                        Roger

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Received on Fri Sep 08 2000 - 09:28:03 PDT