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?" -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
