[LEAPSECS] leap minute or hour

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2022-11-14T21:22:27+0000 Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
> I doubt the will manage to convince the other 99+% to do something
> as deranged as a leap-minute.

> Thanks to timezones and DST, less than 1% of the worlds population
> live where mean solar time is correct to a minute.

The reason we got leap seconds in the first place is that one country
changed its law so that the rubber/elastic seconds of original UTC
became illegal.  Even though they were advised of serious technical
problems the other countries capitulated to leap seconds as the
"parfaitement recommandable" solution to the political problem.
We do not have Hari Seldon theory to guage the psychohistory of
international alliances and how they will align with each other about
answering "What time is it?"

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