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--- Begin Message ---It’s hard to conclude that ‘“nothing will change” for the public’, when there’s a proposal for ‘a “kind of smear”, in which the last minute of the day takes two minutes.’ > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:56:23 -0800 > From: Steve Lelievre <[email protected]> > To: Sundial List <[email protected]> > Subject: No more leap seconds! > > Apparently the Powers That Be have officially decided that Clock Time is > right and Solar Time is wrong. > > Or to put it another way, the International Bureau of Weights and > Measures has voted to stop using Leap Seconds by by 2035. > > However, an IBWM representative said "the connection between UTC and the > rotation of the Earth is not lost [...] Nothing will change [for the public]" > which apparently means we'll have less frequent adjustments instead (leap > minutes?). > > https://phys.org/news/2022-11-global-timekeepers-vote-scrap.html > > Steve > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:59:44 +1100 > From: John Pickard <[email protected]> > > Good evening, > > I doubt it will affect dials very much, especially the EoT, ... > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/18/do-not-adjust-your-clock-scientists-call-time-on-the-leap-second > > -- > Cheers, John. > > Dr John Pickard.
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