Poul-Henning Kamp wrote in <202211142122.2aelmriv024...@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) _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
