[LEAPSECS] happy anniversary pips

[Greg Hennessy]

On 02/10/2014 11:57 AM, Warner Losh wrote:


> I get that people don't like this, and that there's some resistance

> to it on aesthetic grounds dressed up in the guise of technical

> arguments about universal not meaning what it has always meant, and

> that entrenched interests aren't unhappy enough with the status quo

> to risk changes...



So the horrors of having a variable number of seconds in a minute is so
bad we'll switch to having a variable number of hours in day.

I suspect the major advantage of the new scheme is that
it pushes the matter off till most people around are
dead.