On Fri 2011/02/11 16:20:22 -0000, Tony Finch wrote in a message to: Leap Second Discussion List <[email protected]>
>> 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)? > >At 2.5ms/cy that'll be in 40,000 years. I hope you don't mind if I think >it's irrelevant. Well yes, as I said the "quadratic blow out" in leap seconds is a specious argument which should be rejected That applies to time zones just as well as leap seconds. Regards, Mark Calabretta _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
