Am 20.11.2015 16:53, schrieb Paul_Koning@dell.com:
On Nov 20, 2015, at 12:16 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
On 2015-11-20, Paul Ganssle <paul@ganssle.io> wrote: ...
You think a timescale which is an integer number of seconds offset from TAI and which is within a second or so of London’s Mean Solar Time is wholly unnecessary. This demonstrates that you aren’t a marine navigator, an astronomer, or (where it bites especially hard) an aviator. It’s from these people that the real-world pushback against decoupling international standard time from mean solar is coming, and they have good reasons.
I'm puzzled. Are there still marine navigators who have a sextant at hand, never mind know how to use one, let alone active use it? And celestial navigation in airplanes disappeared, what, 50 years ago? More?
paul
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