-------- Steve Allen writes: > On Mon 2022-11-14T21:22:27+0000 Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > > I doubt the will manage to convince the other 99+% to do something > > as deranged as a leap-minute. > > > Thanks to timezones and DST, less than 1% of the worlds population > > live where mean solar time is correct to a minute. > > The reason we got leap seconds in the first place is that one country > changed its law so that the rubber/elastic seconds of original UTC > became illegal.
Steve please drop the conspiracy theories. We got leap-seconds because a second of variable duration was useless for several rapidly developing technologies, from atoms to space via the laser and digital telecom. -- 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 https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
