In message <20050811190213.GD21299_at_ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:
>On Thu 2005-08-11T20:51:25 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>> Will you support a proposal that keeps leap-second (or -minutes),
>> but mandates that they be determined 40 or 50 years in advance ?
>>
>> If you do, will you help write it ?
>
>I would consider it if I knew who shot down McCarthy's proposal to do
>pretty much that, and why. In the absence of that revelation there's
>not much incentive to proceed. If one of the most renowned of the
>Time Lords was ignored, who are we?
Did he actually submit it to WP7A ?
If he didn't, they would never have had a chance to ignore it in
the first place.
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Received on Thu Aug 11 2005 - 12:07:41 PDT