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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen () leitl org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:31:05 +0200
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:10:45PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
IMO, leap seconds are a really bad idea. Let the vanishingly few people who care about a precision match against the solar day keep track of the deviation from clock time and let everybody else have a *simple* clock year after year. When the deviation increases to an hour every what, thousand years? Then you can do a big, well publicized correction where everybody is paying attention to making it work instead of being caught by surprise.
Notice that already InterplaNet requires a time base not linked to a particular planetary body. If we're looking at kiloyear scales, then either nobody will care about celestial dynamics of a particular planetary body, or nobody will care about precise time standards any longer.
Current thread:
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Majdi S. Abbas (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Kristolaitis (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tyler Haske (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Eugen Leitl (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Eugen Leitl (Jul 05)