[LEAPSECS] leap second roundup 2017

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20171025054835.GA18430 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:
>On Tue 2017-10-24T19:32:31+0000 Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>> The parallel is not as convincing as you may think.  Back then, the people
>> who worked with stuff where it made a difference knew what they were doing,
>> being generally people with "phd." after their name.
>
>Alas, the history says that way too many of the PhDs did not.  There
>are lots of astronomers who wrote down their concept of origin and
>meaning of the new second but turned out not to understand what the
>new value of the second actually represented.  Sadler is nearly alone on
>record expressing the opinion that the leap second was a bad idea,
>everybody else thought it was the perfect solution.

A perfectly good argument why we should not listen to the astronomers
this time around :-)

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