[LEAPSECS] tinkering with time ?

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Mark Calabretta wrote:

>

> In the very distant future when the mean solar day is 86401 SI

> seconds long (or hopefully well before that), the pretence that

> the day is only 86400 SI seconds long, with its reductio ad

> absurdum result of a leap-second-per-day, should hopefully cause

> a re-examination of this convenient untruth.


On the other hand, dealing with that will only require a timezone
adjustment every ten years or so, which is perfectly tolerable.

On the gripping hand, that will be tens of thousands of years in the
future, by which time the Gregorian calendar will no longer accurately
reflect the ratio between the length of the year and the length of the
day.

Tony.
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