[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jul 2 13:19:04 UTC 2012
In message <4FF19D3C.4050602 at earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes:
>which is an interesting thing.. if instead of DST (for which I think
>there's little practical reason to have in the first place).. say you
>just shifted the clock one minute earlier or later each day, gradually
>moving it to the new alignment relative to solar day.
Why bother ?
Just make everybody use TAI and make T-O-D alignment a cultural
thing rather than a numerological superstition ?
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