[LEAPSECS] We can all be winners

[Rob Seaman]

Impossible to keep up with all the messages.  Presumably it will calm  
down when the leap second turns out to be a non-issue yet again ;-)

M. Warner Losh wrote:


> I contend we don't actually need a mean solar time to the sub-second  

> time scale for civil time.  A mean solar time to the hour is likely  

> sufficient for that.


The key issue is the stability of the civil timescale, not its  
precision.  However, degrading the precision by 5 orders of magnitude  
in one gulp seems rather...excessive.  The actual proposal on the  
table, of course, simply denies the existence of the Sun in the sky.

Rob