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

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Mon Jul 2 17:04:48 UTC 2012


Hi Mike,

Clearly when you called me a Luddite you were passing me a
complement?

For whatever reason, you have taken it upon yourself to behave
like an ass towards me whenever I post on this group.  Don't be
surprised when I respond to your impolite behavior.

The argument is simple.  There is no need for the time to
perfectly match the earth's revolution for 99.999999% of the
population.  Why should they be subject to the unnecessary
risks and down time that failures of the fiddly little fixes
for the leap second cause?

The Earth slows down about 30 seconds for every century that
passes.  Most folks wouldn't even be able to formulate a method
whereby they could measure that small of a shift.

The only group that really needs to have time match the Earth's
rotation is astronomers.  They can take care of their own needs
by simply feeding a TAI like timescale to a library function that
will apply the correction.

-Chuck Harris

Mike S wrote:
> On 7/2/2012 9:41 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:
>> I know this is hard for you Mike, try and pay attention.
>
> Are insults really a necessary part of your argument?
>
>
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