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Rob -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Tony Finch Sent: 02 July 2012 16:26 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay? Jim Lux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > which is an interesting thing.. if instead of DST (for which I think > there's little practical reason to have in the first place).. say you > just shifted the clock one minute earlier or later each day, gradually > moving it to the new alignment relative to solar day. DST exists because people prefer to align the timetabled active part of the day to sunrise rather than midday. But there are too many difficulties with counting time from actual sunrise and reconciling differences due to latitude and longitude. So we quantize everything to an hour (mostly). Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Trafalgar: Northerly 5 to 7, but mainly 4 in northwest. Moderate. Fair. Moderate or good. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
