[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> When the calendar drifts far enough away for some future potentate to decree

> that something must be done, what will be done is the insertion (or omission)

> of an integral number of days in an intercalary event.  The mechanism is

> clear, the policy is lacking.  The ITU proposal is lacking not just guidance

> on policy for the equivalent clock issue, but fails to even speculate on

> options for a mechanism.


The point of the calendrical comparison is that people prefer a fixed
arithmetic calendar that's stable over long periods, and they don't like
unpredictable observational calendars even if they are always accurate.

Tony.
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