Rob Seaman scripsit: > Third result - even in the absence of lunar braking, leap jumps > (or equivalent clock adjustments) would remain necessary.
Why is that? If the SI second were properly tuned to the mean solar day, and the secular slowing were eliminated, there would be no need to mess about with the civil time scale, because the random accelerations and decelerations would cancel out in the long run. Of course, we'd have to tolerate larger differences between clock time and terrestrial time, but we'd expect that. -- We pledge allegiance to the penguin John Cowan and to the intellectual property regime [EMAIL PROTECTED] for which he stands, one world under http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Linux, with free music and open source software for all. --Julian Dibbell on Brazil, edited
