On 2011-11-17, at 19:57, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > Count me in with the uninformed then and please help inform us. (Just to be > clear here; I'm completely serious - I understand the general concept of > course, but I genuinely don't understand the specific use cases for having > leap seconds).
I would say that the use case is quite irrelevant. The use case dictates the choice of time scale, not the other way. Fundamentally changing the definition of a time scale is an insult to those who have made a deliberate choice, regardless their numbers or importance. It makes proper engineering impossible. N _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
