On Jul 4, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On 7/4/12, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > >> IMO, leap seconds are a really bad idea. Let the vanishingly few >> people who care about a precision match against the solar day keep >> track of the deviation from clock time and let everybody else have a >> *simple* clock year after year. When the deviation increases to an >> hour every what, thousand years? Then you can do a big, well >> publicized correction where everybody is paying attention to making it >> work instead of being caught by surprise. > [snip] > > Instead of having leap seconds; redraw the world timezone map, so > that the boundaries of every time zone are shifted by a distance in > feet that corresponds to one second; and such that after a thousand > years and an hour's worth of leap seconds, > the physical locations of the timezones will have shifted just so > far, that there is a 1 hour adjustment. :) > > > -- > -JH
Given that we don't seem to be able to eliminate the absurdity of DST, I doubt that either of those proposals is likely to fly. Owen
