In message <61B79FC1-7E26-4488-8BFD-38CF817696A7_at_noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> It is not unrelated to why some of us think that changing the
>> definition of UTC is infinitely more possible than changing the
>> rest of the worlds educational level with regards to timekeeping.
>
>Not unrelated, simply completely irrelevant. Your argument,
>apparently shared by the folks pushing the ITU proposal, is not
>without merit. Folks don't understand civil time issues now and we
>have little hope they ever will, so why not take the purely pragmatic
>action of redefining UTC? The failure of your argument is not that
>public policy in an imperfect world sometimes requires compromise.
>The failure is that the compromise being offered doesn't address the
>problem at hand.
I thought you were busy with your analysis document ?
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Received on Mon Aug 29 2005 - 10:37:43 PDT