On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:59 PM Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > >Eg, would we really be worse off if we'd said 'there will be a leap second > >every 18 months starting Jan 1 1972? > > That would be a pretty good result, but would anyone have picked that > rate of leaps in 1971? >
All this means to me is that either time travel does not exist, or astronomers of the future have severe funding issues. Eg, if Warner had access to a time machine, he could have sent the "leap second every 18 months is good in the decade-scale future" message back to 1971. Maybe time travel is hard because you need to set the dial using UT2, but the UTC-UT2 difference is known only in the future of the traveler wanting to back? (I am in Singapore, which is perpetually on Summer Time (UTC+08), although we are 103E) -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane
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