[LEAPSECS] the inception of leap seconds

[Sanjeev Gupta]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:59 PM Zefram <zefram at fysh.org> wrote:

> Warner Losh wrote:
> >Eg, would we really be worse off if we'd said 'there will be a leap second
> >every 18 months starting Jan 1 1972?
>
> That would be a pretty good result, but would anyone have picked that
> rate of leaps in 1971?
>

All this means to me is that either time travel does not exist, or
astronomers of the future have severe funding issues.  Eg, if Warner had
access to a time machine, he could have sent the "leap second every 18
months is good in the decade-scale future" message back to 1971.

Maybe time travel is hard because you need to set the dial using UT2, but
the UTC-UT2 difference is known only in the future of the traveler wanting
to back?

(I am in Singapore, which is perpetually on Summer Time (UTC+08), although
we are 103E)
-- 
Sanjeev Gupta
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