[LEAPSECS] thread on slashdot

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2007-11-20T11:06:26 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:

> Another leap second thread on Slashdot:


I especially like the tags that got applied

badidea, politics, science, thankthedeity, greenwichmeantime

As for that second tag, I note in passing Dr. Levine's statement
at the 17th CCTF meeting in 2006.

http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/CCTF17.pdf

page 21:

"the issue of leap seconds is mainly political, not technical"

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