On 7 Jan 2011, at 20:53, Rob Seaman <sea...@noao.edu> wrote: > > The proposal as written asserts that humans don't care about the synodic > length of day.
No, it says 86400 SI seconds is close enough for civil time. The aim is to reduce the need for synchronization adjustments - eliminate frequent fine adjustments and just use infrequent coarse adjustments instead. We care that the length matches the Earth well enough that the adjustments can do their job. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
