On 18 Jan 2014, at 07:18, Clive D.W. Feather <[email protected]> wrote: > > Removing future leap seconds won't change the legal definition of the word > "day" anywhere. What it does mean is that, in countries using "UTC" as part > of the legal definition, the centre of the night will drift away from 00:00 > before stepping back again.
Which of course it does anyway, over the course of a year. "Oh noes, 12:00 won't be noon any more" is a ship that sailed with the arrival of mean time, sank with the adoption of national timezones rather than local time on a per-town basis, and whose wreck was then dynamited to avoid causing trouble to shipping with the arrival of daylight savings time. ian _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
