Last year at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software Systems (ADASS)
conference a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session resulted in an
extemporaneous group formed to focus on the subjects of leap seconds
and UTC. This year the group continued to raise awareness at ADASS
with a poster presentation.
Steve Allen scripsit:
For most civil purposes time is only relevant to the nearest minute;
An obvious counterexample is taping TV shows: you don't want to miss
the first or last minute (modulo the presence of commercials).
I go to some trouble to keep my VCR synchronized with NTP time
to the
