[LEAPSECS] leap minute or hour

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Steve Allen writes:
> 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.

Steve please drop the conspiracy theories.

We got leap-seconds because a second of variable duration was useless
for several rapidly developing technologies, from atoms to space
via the laser and digital telecom.

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