In message <cactjvnxhfq79n3fvprs4xyen4ouc6w7q9ih1u2kisfg9d_f...@mail.gmail.com> , Steve Rooke writes: >Well, instead of leap seconds which seem to be the biggest bug bear >for everyone, keep the second as 1/86,400 of the earths current >rotation and adjust the factor used in the calculation of atomic time >on a regular basis.
We tried that in the 1960-ies, and it didn't work for anybody at all. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
