[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Mark Calabretta wrote:

>

> It's been a while...  Can you remind me why we will need to continue

> to pretend that there are 86400 SI seconds in a day, past the time

> when there are actually 86401 (or more)?


At 2.5ms/cy that'll be in 40,000 years. I hope you don't mind if I think
it's irrelevant.

Tony.
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