In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:

>My answer has always been that both are necessary.  Leap seconds
>are one possible way to reconcile these very different flavors of
>time.

They are not different flavors of time, one is a measurement of
time, the other a measurement of speed of rotation.

Both are needed, for sure, but that does not make the both measurements of time.

Poul-Henning

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