Peter Vince said: > Surely it would be better to allow "civil time" to run smoothly from > atomic clocks, and give ourselves a few hundred years to quietly consider > how to correct the slow drift that has reached the same order of magnitude > as the analemma effect, which we regularly ignore and/or aren't even aware > of?
There's already a proposal for solving this - one that I support. That is to allow each polity to decide when the drift is large enough to be annoying and then make a 1 hour change to their (local time - UTC) delta value. For those polities that make a twice-yearly change anyway, this could be done by omitting one such change. So, let us suppose the year 2600 is when the drift reaches the annoying point, and let us suppose the EU is still in existence. By then the sun will reach its highest point at about 12:45 UTC. So at this point the EU announces (a few years ahead) that the normal autumn shift back of the clocks will not happen. From autumn 2600 onwards, the UK will observe UTC+0100 in the winter and UTC+0200 in the summer; France will observe UTC+0200 and +0300, and so on. Dealing with local time changes as you cross borders is something people are used to, as is the fact that the amount of change varies both within the year and from year to year. So there's nothing new for people to get used to. Simples. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: [email protected] | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
