On Mon 2008-03-31T12:20:06 +0100, Tony Finch hath writ: > So you think that the millions of existing radio controlled clocks and > watches should stop showing civil time?
Yes, that is, yes to a subsecond precision. They would be showing TI instead of UT, another international standard, and a difference which (to replay the words of the folks who would abolish leap seconds) would amount to less than two minutes by the end of the century. I expect that Casio, Timex, and the other radio-controlled walk clock and wristwatch manufacturers would cry all the way to the bank as people bought new ones when the difference in seconds became notable to those who care that much. And for the rest, most of those timepieces would have disintegrated from their poor construction prior to the time when the difference between TI and UTC was larger than a non-radio-controlled timepiece. -- Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
