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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:48:58 -0700
On Jul 4, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
On 7/4/12, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> 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.[snip] Instead of having leap seconds; redraw the world timezone map, so that the boundaries of every time zone are shifted by a distance in feet that corresponds to one second; and such that after a thousand years and an hour's worth of leap seconds, the physical locations of the timezones will have shifted just so far, that there is a 1 hour adjustment. :) -- -JH
Given that we don't seem to be able to eliminate the absurdity of DST, I doubt that either of those proposals is likely to fly. Owen
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- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Brett Frankenberger (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Brett Frankenberger (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? William Herrin (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jason Hellenthal (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? George Herbert (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jimmy Hess (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? joel jaeggli (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Vadim Antonov (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Dmitry Burkov (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Vadim Antonov (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jared Mauch (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Nick Hilliard (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Henning Stener (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jared Mauch (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Richard Irving (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 05)