Potential abolition of leap seconds - USNO impact survey
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From: Robert Jones on 7 Sep 2008 18:37 I thought the following link could be of interest: The USNO is conducting a poll for the DoD about leap seconds. http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leap_second_poll.html I note in the description that they do not recognize the possiblity of having a leap-free broadcast time scale while still allowing leap seconds in UTC. Those really are two separate questions. Posted by Steve Allen on the Listserve leap second discussion group, which is email only My own imprsssion is that most computer systems, especially commercial, small business and personal, would find it much easier to do without them. Navigation, astronomy and possibly telecommunications applications may have rather more problems. Robert
From: Steve Allen on 8 Sep 2008 01:37 On Sep 7, 3:37 pm, Robert Jones <rjon...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Posted by Steve Allen on the Listserve leap second discussion group, > which is email only The recent flow of LEAPSECS list is archived at http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/ > My own imprsssion is that most computer systems, especially > commercial, small business and personal, would find it much easier to > do without them. Navigation, astronomy and possibly telecommunications > applications may have rather more problems. Hugo Chavez didn't give Venezuela or the zoneinfo folks much consideration when he moved their timezone by half an hour. It would be easier to do without changes in zoneinfo, but we don't get that option. It's a choice of how we value our descendants. See http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html
From: tlmfru on 8 Sep 2008 15:13
Hum. Having read the articles below, I think it might be less complicated to install rockets around the equator to speed up the earth once a decade or so ... PL Steve Allen <sla29970(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:01d6ff2a-abe1-460b-8dbe-6b50864d0772(a)p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com... On Sep 7, 3:37 pm, Robert Jones <rjon...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Posted by Steve Allen on the Listserve leap second discussion group, > which is email only The recent flow of LEAPSECS list is archived at http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/ > My own imprsssion is that most computer systems, especially > commercial, small business and personal, would find it much easier to > do without them. Navigation, astronomy and possibly telecommunications > applications may have rather more problems. Hugo Chavez didn't give Venezuela or the zoneinfo folks much consideration when he moved their timezone by half an hour. It would be easier to do without changes in zoneinfo, but we don't get that option. It's a choice of how we value our descendants. See http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html |