On 02/10/2014 11:57 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
I get that people don't like this, and that there's some resistance to it on aesthetic grounds dressed up in the guise of technical arguments about universal not meaning what it has always meant, and that entrenched interests aren't unhappy enough with the status quo to risk changes...
So the horrors of having a variable number of seconds in a minute is so bad we'll switch to having a variable number of hours in day. I suspect the major advantage of the new scheme is that it pushes the matter off till most people around are dead. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
