[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

[Mike S]

On 7/2/2012 9:28 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
> but if we ARE going to establish artificial connections between wall
> clock time (work hours, store opening times, bar closing times, etc.)
> and the sun, why not do it gradually.

Time and the sun are certainly a _natural_ connection, not an artificial 
one. Units of time start with the day. Subdivided, we get HMS, measured 
from the maximum height of the sun. Greater, years, which were measured 
in days. It's the artificial definition of the SI second which has 
caused all the problems.