[LEAPSECS] Letters Blogatory

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> We have a saying in danish "Skoma'r bliv ved din læst" which translates
> to "Cobbler stay at your workbench".

The English word is "last": "The cobbler should stick to his last". Almost
certainly with the same derivation.

> The fact that he is a lawyer seems to have nothing, if anything to do
> with his personal opinion on leap seconds.
>
> In other words:  Yeah, he's entitled to his opinion, just like everybody
> else, but he doesn't have any special standing for his opinion, which as
> others have pointed out, interfaces badly with reality.

Exactly.

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