[LEAPSECS] Caveat emptor!

[Tony Finch]

On 11 Apr 2011, at 20:19, Gerard Ashton <ashtongj at comcast.net> wrote:


> If leap seconds are abolished, and Britain decides to maintain an approximation

> to mean time 0 degrees longitude, +/- a fraction of a second (modulo time zones, as currently defined),

> over time the difference in timekeeping systems will become clearly perceptible and clearly

> distinguishable to people with no special equipment beyond a carefully set wrist watch.


But note that Britain does not currently have the capability to maintain GMT since the relevant department was closed decades ago and the institution that housed it was abolished. If the international consensus is to change UTC then UK civil time will have to follow.

Tony.
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