"Day" is a fundamental physical fact about a planet or moon. "Minute" is an artificial concept. Its intuitive role as a fraction of a day takes precedence over serving as a round number of equally artificial SI seconds. There are two kinds of time that must be accommodated.
Rob Seaman NOAO -- > On Oct 30, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes: > >> I wonder if the ITU-R process can go to its completion without >> introducing any document which points out that to omit leap seconds >> from a time scale called UTC is to redefine the word "day". > > You mean the same way leapseconds redefine "minute" by making > them have the counter intuitive numbers of seconds ? _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
