On Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 08:29 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzme...@nic.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:15:41PM +0100, > Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote > a message of 15 lines which said: > > > The problems are that UTC is unpredictable, > > That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time based on > this buggy planet's movements will be unpredictable. Let's patch it > now! > > So, what we should do is make clocks move. 99999 slower half of the year (and then speed back up) so that we're really in line with earth's rotational time. I mean we've got the computers to do it (I think most RTC only go down to thousandths so it'll still need a little skewing but I'm sure we'll manage). Ps - if anyone actually does this, I'm going postal.