[LEAPSECS] Cheating means more planning, not less

[Michael Sokolov]

M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:


> I don't think that's a viable thing to do.  It would play havoc with

> anything except the most low-precision timing applications.


But civil time *is* a low-precision timing application!


> And if

> you don't solve the problem for high-precision timing applications,

> I'm not sure that it is a viable solution.


Those need to use a diffirent time scale decoupled from civil time,
i.e., TAI, GPS, TT, whatever.  There need to be two different seconds,
a civil second and a scientific second.  The latter would be better
renamed to essen.

MS