On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 20:40:00 +1100, Shane Ginnane wrote:
>This would be primarily for the gratification of gil:
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-03/time-for-change-gmt-could-be-history/3617226
>
Wherein I read:
...
"We are starting to have parallel definitions of time. Imagine a world
where there
were two or three definitions of a kilogram."
Imagine a world where there were two or three definitions of a pint.
...
That would see atomic time slowly diverge from GMT, by about one minute
every 60 to 90 years, or by an hour every 600 years, and there would need
to be "leap minutes" a couple of times a century to bring the two in line.
At a quadratically increasing rate. Right; let our grandchildren deal with the
problem. A pernicious compromise: either abandon Earth Rotation Time or
stick with UTC; don't just introduce a third standard.
-- gil
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