On Thu 2011/02/10 10:27:34 -0000, Tony Finch wrote in a message to: Leap Second Discussion List <[email protected]>
>> If we're seriously expected to accept the "quadratic catastrophy" >> argument for immediately changing UTC, would it be too much to >> expect that its replacement actually solve the problem rather >> than simply delay it? > >There is no solution to the problem, if you define the problem as >satisfying the requirements that civil time is tightly coupled to UT, >there are always 86400 seconds in a day, and seconds are SI seconds >realised on the geoid. We've tried relaxing two of these requirements >and neither result was very satisfactory. It's been a while... Can you remind me why we will need to continue to pretend that there are 86400 SI seconds in a day, past the time when there are actually 86401 (or more)? Regards, Mark Calabretta _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
