[LEAPSECS] The Battle of Flodden Field

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Warner Losh wrote:

>

> Eliminating leap seconds keeps the period of the day constant.


Not really, because there is no single "period of the day" :-) There are
days according to UT1, UTC, local time, etc. and these lengths all differ
and none of them is (currently) constant. Fixing the length of the UTC day
doesn't have any significant effect on the synchronization between local
civil time and local solar time: it doesn't make it any less precise nor
does it break the mechanism for adjusting the relative phases of clocks
and daylight.

Tony.
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