[LEAPSECS] Solar time: From mean solar days, to mean solar years

[Warner Losh]

On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> wrote:

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>> On Aug 20, 2014, at 18:48, leapsecs-request at leapsecond.com wrote:
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>> "Dropping Leap Seconds" is something like burning great libraries.
> 
> That's a very particular opinion. I'd compare it to adding decimal digits to Pi instead of just saying 3 is accurate enough.

A more proper analogy would be using 3.141593 instead of 3.1415926…

Warner

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