Re: [LEAPSECS] interoperability

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:20:21 +0100

In message <20060109080706.GA6998_at_ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:
>On Mon 2006-01-09T08:20:40 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>> beginning ("SI seconds are constant length").
>
>Yes, SI seconds are constant length, but the ghost of my general
>relativity teacher prompts me to assert that my SI seconds are not
>equal to your SI seconds because we are in different reference
>frames.

>(This has nothing to do with leap seconds, [...]

You are absolutely right there, so why even bring it up ?

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