On Mar 28, 2008, at 5:22 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote:
As someone who has been ill-treated by leapseconds, I fail to see why they are necessary in a society that accepts > 1hr deviation from solar mean time...
1) Again, this is confusing apparent solar time with mean solar time, periodic effects with secular effects. Surely we would all choose to solve some other less political technical issue by first correctly modeling the physical behavior.
2) Have you been ill-treated by leapseconds or by badly designed and implemented systems?
3) System engineering best practices exist precisely to make issues evident to all stakeholders who may indeed fail to see the nature of those issues at the beginning of the project.
We have yet to even begin a coherent process of characterizing what the project "Civil Timekeeping v2.0" would consist of. Since the current interim solution is viable for several centuries yet, what is our hurry?
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