Mostly for the US residents, but in the first case for some beyond
the national borders, I relay two links of interest.
In response to a document created by its Division of Dynamical
Astronomy the American Astronomical Society has formed a committee to
make recommendation to the ITU-R.
http://www.aas.org/policy/LeapSecondCommittee.html
They solicit input before making their recommendation to the AAS council.
Input is requested prior to 2006-09-15.
In the middle of May some text about legal time in the US was
introduced into a US Senate bill regarding funding for NSF and NIST.
See section 508 of S.2802 introduced 2006-05-15, e.g.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2802:
(note that the final colon in the URL is relevant)
This bill is currently awaiting amendments as seen in
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.02802:
The language seeks to redefine the national time standard from GMT to UTC.
Language like this was introduced in 2002, but the bill was killed.
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Received on Tue Jul 04 2006 - 16:50:54 PDT