Sorry, but I disagree with Tony Finch. The time period from June 30, 2012, 7:59:60 to June 30, 2012, 8:00:00, Eastern Daylight Time, did occur in the United States and any end user requiring such precision was legally obliged to observe it.
-----Original Message----- From: LEAPSECS [mailto:leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com] On Behalf Of Michael Spacefalcon Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:27 AM To: leapsecs@leapsecond.com Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] a big week for leaps at SG7 and WP7A Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > And I seem to remember from reading the materials that they also > ignored the cultural damage that was done by the introduction of leap > seconds in the first place, breaking a multi-thousand-year tradition > of base 60 fractions, making all mechanical clocks obsolete, and so on. Red herring, the problem you are describing only occurs if you feed the leap seconds "raw" directly to end users, which one should NOT do; instead the LSs need to be passed through a smoothing function like UTC-SLS or Leap Smear before being presented to non-technical end users. VLR, SF _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
