The Junta spits at science again... now they want to control time!

[Rosco T.]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05210/545823.stm

Why the US wants to end link between time and sun
Friday, July 29, 2005

By Keith J. Winstein, The Wall Street Journal

(snip)

Time to change the way we measure time, according to a U.S. government proposal that businesses favor, astronomers abominate and Britain sees as a threat to its venerable standard, Greenwich Mean Time.

Word of the U.S. proposal, made secretly to a United Nations body, began leaking to scientists earlier this month. The plan would simplify the world's timekeeping by making each day last exactly 24 hours. Right now, that's not always the case.

(snip)

The U.S. effort to abolish leap seconds is also firmly opposed by Britain, which would further lose status as the center of time. From 1884 to 1961, the world set its official clocks to Greenwich Mean Time, based on the actual rise and set of the stars as seen from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, just outside London.

(snip)

For now, U.S. officials still regard their proposal as secret, despite Dr. Gambis's email and the public comments. The head of America's delegation to the ITU's timing committee, D. Wayne Hanson of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, declined to take calls on the matter. Through a spokeswoman, he said that the U.S. proposal is a private matter internal to the ITU and not for public discussion.

[wtmusic]

1. We need a guy like Bolton in there to ram this one through

:eyes:

[lildreamer316]

2. OK. I'm done.

I officially give the fuck up. AAAAAUGH. The egos.
I'm lost; speechless.

[Deja Q]

3. Why the secrecy? Will Father Time have a stroke if He finds out?

:eyes:

Fuck businesses too. They've had more than enough special perks.

(and not in the good way)

[Straight Shooter]

4. They must have figured out a way to make big money from this.

Either that, or they just want to push everyone around. Maybe both. Jeebers.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. don't forget about Pi

The proper biblical number is "3"

Watch for this great correctional event to start at an UN near you.

[The2ndWheel]

6. How about just

scrap the whole "time" thing, and be done with it? Sign me up for that.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Please don't remind them that the Earth is round. They hate that.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. sez who? Huh?

You got a site that proves your incredible statement? See, you can't prove it!

Don't you know the world is flat, the universe is 6,000 years old and these so-calle archeological digs dating back 20,000 years are simply a test of faith?

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. If you will fund a round-the-world trip, I'll prove that it's round :-)

Can't help about the dinosaur bones; either you believe carbon dating or you don't, whatever is convenient.

Some folks say the universe is 14 Billion years old. Does that mean that God had only recently gotten to creating humans?

[flordehinojos]

8. the bushes are power and control freaks. one day they will even want to

control my dog's poop!

[pitohui]

10. better to disrupt future generations whole day

one second of inconvenience is too much to endure for people of 500 years from now

they do not care for their own grand-children, why would they care about the disruption caused half a millenium hence

jeebus is coming you know

[OrlandoGator]

11. With atomic clocks and the internet, it is now EASIER to keep track...

...of leap seconds. This is freaking absurd.