Markus Kuhn scripsit:
> UTC currently certainly has *no* two 1-h leaps every year.
There seems to be persistent confusion on what is meant by the term
"leap hour". I understand it as a secular change to the various LCT offsets,
made either all at once (on 1 Jan 2600, say) or on an ad-lib basis.
You seem to be using it in the sense of a 1h secular change to universal
time (lower-case generic reference is intentional).
Can anyone quote chapter and verse from Torino to show exactly what was
meant? Or is the text in fact ambiguous?
> If you read, just one example, to deviate a bit from the overwhelmingly
> US/UK-centricism of this legal argument,
I keep talking about the Chinese example. Consider the city of Kashi,
population about 175,000. Its longitude is about 76 E, which means
that its LMT is about GMT+5. Its LCT, however, is Asia/Shanghai, or
UTC+8. If all those people can live with an LCT that is three hours
away from the sun, we can stand rather lower discrepancies just fine.
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