On Jan 4, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Tony Finch wrote: > Steve Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Happy New Year! >> >> How did I tell that it became the new year? >> By the civil calendar date changing from Dec 31 to Jan 1. >> How did I tell when the civil calendar date changed? >> By looking at my clock set using UTC, which is, at present, connected >> to the rotation of the earth, and thus to days. >> The draft revision of ITU-R TF.460 removes the connection between UTC >> and the rotation of the earth, > > Correct up to this point. > >> thus disconnecting the civil calendar date from the sun. > > Incorrect, because the civil calendar is tied to local solar time using > the time zone system. Local civil time is not going to move out of sync > with the sun, and therefore the calendar will also remain in sync.
Do people have a notion how we'll recon time when the accumulated delta becomes large (like on the order of 100k seconds)? UTC+27? Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
