[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

[Tony Finch]

Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

DST exists because people prefer to align the timetabled active part of
the day to sunrise rather than midday. But there are too many difficulties
with counting time from actual sunrise and reconciling differences due to
latitude and longitude. So we quantize everything to an hour (mostly).

Tony.
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