[LEAPSECS] leap minute or hour
Steffen Nurpmeso
steffen at sdaoden.eu
Mon Nov 14 16:34:26 EST 2022
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote in
<202211142122.2AELMRiv024833 at critter.freebsd.dk>:
|--------
|Eric Scace writes:
|
|> If a leap minute were to be added/removed at some future date
|> when UTC became significantly more that 30 seconds different from
|> mean solar time, [...]
|
|Thanks to timezones and DST, less than 1% of the worlds population
|live where mean solar time is correct to a minute.
|
|I doubt the will manage to convince the other 99+% to do something
|as deranged as a leap-minute.
|
|Full hour shifts, on the other hand, can be done merely by changing
|the time-zone, and they can be done through the normal political
|process, aligned to recognized borders.
Heck. As long as we all come together at the right time in
Stonehenge, everything is all right!
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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