Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps, but leap seconds are a solution to the problem that must die in > the fullness of time. With the quadratic acceleration there will come a > time in a few thousand years when one leap second a month or day isn't > enough and another solution will be necessary to keep things in sync. So > in a way, leap seconds are putting a band-aide over the problem until > everybody alive today is dead too...
Yes. And time zone adjustments will be able to keep civil time in sync with earth rotation for a much longer time than leap seconds :-) Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
