[time-nuts] The future of UTC
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jul 15 10:59:39 UTC 2011
In message <CACTjVNxhfQ79n3FVPRS4XYeN4Ouc6w7Q9ih1u2KisFG9D_fYsg at mail.gmail.com>
, Steve Rooke writes:
>Well, instead of leap seconds which seem to be the biggest bug bear
>for everyone, keep the second as 1/86,400 of the earths current
>rotation and adjust the factor used in the calculation of atomic time
>on a regular basis.
We tried that in the 1960-ies, and it didn't work for anybody at all.
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