David Woolley dixit:
> I can't find the original for this thread, but days are not 86400
> seconds, which are currently defined in terms of a quantum transition
> frequency. The actual length of a day is less stable than this. Leap
> seconds are introduced into UTC to correct for this.
The gener
On 08/08/2020 23:29, Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev wrote:
I suspect that it is time to detach the physical second, that physicists
use, from the second that is one 86400th of a day, and find a definition
of "day" that depends on our experience of sunlight. The last definition
that I found makes
2020/08/08 17:43 ... Steffen Nurpmeso:
Being all in favour of
keeping UTC aligned with the sun, whatever this means.
I suspect that it is time to detach the physical second, that physicists
use, from the second that is one 86400th of a day, and find a definition
of "day" that depends on our e
