Dave Stewart wrote on 2004-10-18 13:10 UTC:
I suppose that if we don't experience GREENWICH Mean Time as the Local time at SOME time in the year, it would be laughable bearing in mind it's a UK town!
As some forces within the ITU seem still very keen on abolishing the leap second (current proposals seem to suggest from 2010 on), the meridian associated with the international reference time - currently known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), - formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and - possibly soon (2010?) known as International Time (TI, Temps International), would be slowly accellerating eastwards. "International Time" would be firmly on first French territory within less than a millenium (followed by Germany, Poland, and eventually Russia for a very long time). Within just a few millenia, each UN member would have had its fair share of International Time being equal to local time ... Good bye, Greenwich. Markus Background: - http://people.itu.int/~meens/CE7/Sept-04/7A/TEMP/R03-WP7A-040928-TD-0004-E.h... - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/leap/ - http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/ -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__