On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > The idea that midday or midnight would cease to have the same meaning to > an average person is horrid and I would suggest something that some > politicians would get very worked up about. > > In other words, I flat out don't believe that the tinkering with time > would stop simply because leap-seconds were stopped.
Remember that the politicians already have a mechanism to adjust their local time to match the hours of daylight to their satisfaction. Time zones are not going away. 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
