[LEAPSECS] [time-nuts] Leap Quirks

[Rob Seaman]

M. Warner Losh wrote:


> The reason that time zone boundaries are so crazy is that they were

> trying to keep groups of people that interact often on the same time

> zone.  Otherwise we'd have nice, straight lines.

>

> [...]

>

> Time zones were the first step away from a local apparent solar time,

> which had been used prior to that (more or less) to having larger

> areas agree on what time it is.  If anything, I take it as evidence

> that people care less about solar time now than they used to because

> the variance in the local solar time to standard time varies much

> more than it did prior to this shift.


Like I said, I interpret it as support for solar-based civil  
timekeeping.  Others interpret it as evidence of the opposite  
position, and the reality is that the state boundaries are simply in  
the wrong place :-)

Rob