In message <e4476674-165f-49f5-a513-3d1098dc0...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: >Poul-Henning ponders: > >> What is the benefit of leap-seconds to non-astronomers ? > >Leap-seconds are the means to an end. > >Civil timekeeping - likely on this or any other planet - has a >fundamental cadence synchronized to the mean synodic day.
And leapseconds is the means to the end that DUT1 should be < 1s. What benefit does non-astronomers have from DUT1 < 1s ? None that I can see... None that you have documented ? Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
