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Rob Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Historians may care deeply about whether some event
: occurred on one day (as defined by the Earth) as opposed to another
: day (as defined by mid-level international bureaucrats). Religious
: issues anybody?
We already have ambiguity in when something occurs, as defined by
Earth. Each timezone is 15 degrees wide, and thus something may
happen at 11:59:59pm local standard time, but really happen at
12:01:01am the next day 'solar' time. We lost earth local time when
we went to a standard time years ago. That introduced 30 or more
minutes of ambiguity between the mean local solar time and the
standard time. Given such a large ambiguity that people accept today,
it is hard to believe that they can't accept a few more seconds (or
even minutes).
This doesn't address the other issues with keeping or removing leap
seconds in the future, I know, but others have done a good job there.
Warner
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