I'd rather keep the leap-second. The fluctuation that it brings to
clock-time only has a 1-second peak-to-peak amplitude. That's completely
insignificant to dialists. & also entirely insignificant for such
things as Sunrise, Sunset, Civil-Twilight & Nautical Twilight, where a
cloud or a
Dear all, I have never commented on this topic, I do it now with a proposal.
- The leap second takes into account a sort of 'noise', unpredictable
before, for small variations in the speed of the Earth's rotation.
Anyway, over the millennia this speed will decrease, so the leap second
is not
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Didn't we have the same problem with the year, some
Ah, the joys of Listservs and email software. My participation sometimes
gets of of step too: occasionally, original posts reach me after other
people's replies.
Perhaps it wouldn't be a problem if all the world's computers were
exactly synchronized... perhaps they could use atomic clocks
” for the public’, when there’s
a proposal for ‘a “kind of smear”, in which the last minute of the day takes
two minutes.’
> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:56:23 -0800
> From: Steve Lelievre
> To: Sundial List
> Subject: No more leap seconds!
>
> Apparently the Powers That Be have
Sorry Steve,
I sent my post before seeing yours.
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Cheers, John.
Dr John Pickard.
On 21-November-2022 14:56, Steve Lelievre wrote:
Apparently the Powers That Be have officially decided that Clock Time
is right and Solar Time is wrong.
Or to put it another way, the International Bureau
Apparently the Powers That Be have officially decided that Clock Time is
right and Solar Time is wrong.
Or to put it another way, the International Bureau of Weights and
Measures has voted to stop using Leap Seconds by by 2035.
However, an IBWM representative said "the connection between
