Re: [LEAPSECS] Wall Street Journal Article

From: John.Cowan <jcowan_at_REUTERSHEALTH.COM>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 07:39:56 -0400

Markus Kuhn scripsit:

> I don't see any technical problems for existing mechanisms to deal with
> leap seconds until we need more than one leap second per day.

The real problems arrive when it is impossible to pretend any longer that
a day consists of 24 hours. When, say, every third TAI second is a UTC
leap second, and we have to fit three sleep/wake cycles into two solar
days, we hopefully won't be hearing quite so much about the vital importance
of keeping civil time slaved to the mean Sun.

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Received on Mon Aug 01 2005 - 04:40:17 PDT