>From Article:
---
"Most of those involved on the "Abolish Leap Seconds" side of the debate
claim a cost-benefit equation that essentially says: "cost of fixing all
computers
to deal correctly with leap seconds = infinity" over "benefits of leap
seconds = next to nothing."
QED: case closed."



 The world needs a leap second. Reading that article, it seems like there
is an effort to
ignore it and/or get rid of it. But its not like its based on some
arbitrary issue to keep
time keepers at some atomic clock employed. As the moon steals Earth's
rotational speed,
the planet is slowing down and the day is becoming longer. After all. when
the moon was
created, I believe 1/Day = 12/hours.



On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Fabian Wenk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Ask
>
> On 26.06.2012 01:04, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>
>>
>> No, it will (on standard systems) be "corrected" immediately:
>>
>> http://queue.acm.org/detail.**cfm?id=1967009<http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1967009>
>>
>
> Thank you for this URL, this was a really interesting read.
>
>
> bye
> Fabian
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