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

[Rob Kimberley]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18672173

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Tony Finch
Sent: 02 July 2012 16:26
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

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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Trafalgar: Northerly 5 to 7, but mainly 4 in northwest. Moderate. Fair.
Moderate or good.

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