Can we lose leap seconds now? The existence of time zones, DST, etc demonstrates that few outside of niche astronomers care about matching local time with the sun to any precision under about an hour or so. Running the posibility of bugs is not worth it.
Ah, but you say that over time they will add up? Yes, they will. In a few hundred years we'll need to move time zones around. But that change will happen less often than rules about time zones change for purely political reasons. And in the long run, as the rate of discrepancies changes become noticeable on a human time scale, what then? Well that is thousands of years in the future. If technology goes well we'll have experience on asteroids and mars of local time not matching UTC. Adapting those solutions to Earth will be perfectly acceptable. So, what argument is there for maintaining the exact tie between UTC and the Earth's orbit? On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Dave Rolsky <[email protected]> wrote: > http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today > > > -dave > > /*============================================================ > http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org > Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) > ============================================================*/
