On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Brett Frankenberger <rbf+na...@panix.com> wrote: > Without leap seconds, the sun stops being overhead at noon.
But that's ridiculous. The sun *isn't* overhead at noon except at one particular longitude within each time zone. Everywhere else time synch to local noon is +/- half an hour. IMO, leap seconds are a really bad idea. Let the vanishingly few people who care about a precision match against the solar day keep track of the deviation from clock time and let everybody else have a *simple* clock year after year. When the deviation increases to an hour every what, thousand years? Then you can do a big, well publicized correction where everybody is paying attention to making it work instead of being caught by surprise. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
