On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <15BD63A6FC8F4DD580E4DA330B23400D@pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes: > >> Speculating what will happen to timekeeping over centuries or >> millennia is another matter. > > And quite a quite ridiculous matter at that, considering that we > have mucked about with the definition of time roughly every 50 years > for the last millenia, and that none of those mucking-abouts were > particularly predictable.
Rather, by heretofore defining time-of-day as slight variations on the theme of - well - time-of-day, we haven't had to worry about mucking about at all. An attempt to redefine time-of-day as the cadence of basement cesium clocks unresponsive to diurnal cycles will - of course - involve "mucking". _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
