On Fri 2021-01-29T17:38:52+0000 Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
That's the leap hour proposal. I don't understand why so many people were against it.
The document given to ITU-R which proposed the leap hour came from the United States. At that date the US Code explicitly specified that legal time was mean solar time, so representatives from the US groups were legally bound to include some mechanism for retaining a connection between UTC and mean solar days. The objection to the leap hour came from other countries. The US Code has since been changed, but not even pressure from US Department of State during talks about foreign aid could convince some of the countries that objected in 2015. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m