[LEAPSECS]  Leap second on analog watch
    Gerard Ashton 
    ashtongj at comcast.net
       
    Tue Jan 24 21:25:40 EST 2012
    
    
  
If one were designing "analog" watch which was accurate enough to make 
the display of leap
seconds worthwhile, and if it stepped quickly from one second to the 
next, I think
the right approach would be to (1) provide a separate scale for the 
second hand,
which has 61 seconds and (2) for the vast majority of minutes, jump suddenly
from second 59 to second 0 without stopping on second 60.
Of course, such a watch would not really be analog, it would be digital 
with the display
being by means of hands rather than Arabic numerals.
Gerard Ashton
    
    
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