[LEAPSECS] Cast adrift

[Rob Seaman]

Tony Finch wrote:


> One example of an existing secular change of local time might be the

> tectonic drift of Hawaii, but since it moves about 1m east every decade

> the effect is about three orders of magnitude less than the TAI vs. UT1

> rate error.


Since Hawaii is in the middle of a plate, not just the middle of the ocean, there are few neighbors to worry about.  A more apposite example might be locales on either side of the mid-Atlantic rift - neighbors who are rushing apart in geological terms.  I suspect that we could all reach consensus that if some nation is physically transported into a different timezone that it is appropriate for their clocks to reflect this fact :-)