Re: IETF 83 Venue

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@xxxxxxxxx>]

GMT still exists as a legal construct and could well prove useful since it is ultimately under control of HMG, quite possibly it can be modified by as little as an order in council.

So if HMG would eliminate the inanity of leap seconds in GMT we could probably move most computer systems back to GMT rather than UTC as a reference point.

The idea that there is utility in leap seconds is ridiculous. Most astronomers I have talked to tell me that UTC is useless for their purposes anyway and the time of mid-day varies at Greenwich by 5 minutes over the course of a year so what does it matter which two days are right?

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 21, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Clint Chaplin wrote:

> Hey, Paris lobbied heavily to have the Prime Meridian be fixed in Paris.  That would have really made them the center of the navigational world.
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Yes, and then they got the BIH, which got them the power to change GMT to UTC. (GMT no longer has any official existence.)

Marshall

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:37 PM, todd glassey <tglassey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/21/2011 10:22 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ole Jacobsen <ole@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Does anyone see the irony of us even discussing concerns about, of all
>> things, FOOD when it comes to Paris?
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>> What else is there to discuss in Paris?
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> Making Paris the center of the world - ever look at French Navigation Charts - relative to Admiralty charts from any other nation?
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