[LEAPSECS] leap smear

[Ian Batten]

On 19 Sep 2011, at 0749, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> Civil time is tied to Earth Orientation with a precision

> of +/- N hours, for values of N up to about 5.

> 

> Civil time is tied to other governments notion of civil time with

> of +/- < N nanoseconds, for values of N less than 100.


That's the whole argument, summarised.  Local civil time is an incredibly coarse approximation of local solar time, so claims that civil time is tightly coupled to solar time fail.

ian