[LEAPSECS] Do good fences make good neighbors?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <F1C36C4F-A32A-4EBB-BFDE-C51C8A156557 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>My answer has always been that both are necessary.  Leap seconds

>are one possible way to reconcile these very different flavors of

>time.


They are not different flavors of time, one is a measurement of
time, the other a measurement of speed of rotation.

Both are needed, for sure, but that does not make the both measurements of time.

Poul-Henning

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