Impossible to keep up with all the messages. Presumably it will calm
down when the leap second turns out to be a non-issue yet again ;-)
M. Warner Losh wrote:
I contend we don't actually need a mean solar time to the sub-second
time scale for civil time. A mean solar time to the hour is likely
sufficient for that.
The key issue is the stability of the civil timescale, not its
precision. However, degrading the precision by 5 orders of magnitude
in one gulp seems rather...excessive. The actual proposal on the
table, of course, simply denies the existence of the Sun in the sky.
Rob
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