On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Warner Losh wrote: > > Eliminating leap seconds keeps the period of the day constant.
Not really, because there is no single "period of the day" :-) There are days according to UT1, UTC, local time, etc. and these lengths all differ and none of them is (currently) constant. Fixing the length of the UTC day doesn't have any significant effect on the synchronization between local civil time and local solar time: it doesn't make it any less precise nor does it break the mechanism for adjusting the relative phases of clocks and daylight. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND: NORTH BACKING WEST OR NORTHWEST, 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 LATER IN HUMBER AND THAMES. MODERATE OR ROUGH. RAIN THEN FAIR. GOOD. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
