On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Zefram wrote: > > Either of my scenarios still suffers from the problem that the TI-UT > difference accelerates. These timezone offset changes would be needed > at decreasing intervals. By the time timezones are jumping by an hour > every year, one might expect to see political pressure for a new scheme. > But I don't think anything would put a stop to the process before then.
My tonge-in-cheek "sunrise time" idea copes quite well with the far future. Because it becomes normal to change timezone most days, it becomes easy to absorb rate differences between atomic time and solar time even if they are as large as several seconds per day. The main problem would then be running out of digits in the standard timezone offset field... Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ FAEROES SOUTHEAST ICELAND: SOUTHWESTERLY 6 TO GALE 8, OCCASIONALLY SEVERE GALE 9 IN SOUTHEAST ICELAND. VERY ROUGH OR HIGH. RAIN OR SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs