[LEAPSECS] lunar regulation

[Steve Allen]

Posting in lieu of the leap second we're not having today
(but visit the IERS web pages and note that in the past few weeks
the earth's crust rotation has really slowed down a *lot*, so
if it stays slow we're in for a bunch of leap seconds) ...

As overseer of the slitmask submission web interface for Keck's DEIMOS
and LRIS spectrographs I find myself one of the few in the world who
deals with a database and production pipeline which are regulated by
the phase of the moon.  Cutting slitlets in steel plates is cool tech,
but it's not really art.

Here
http://www.alunatime.org/index.htm
is a lunar-regulated notion which is art.
If this catches on it could set calendars back almost to when the wolf
suckled Romulus and Remus.

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