[154426] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Jul 3 19:09:09 2012
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 00:08:25 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
In-Reply-To: <2a30ca40148ece4587271b42b8cfe7e9@mail.dessus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
>
> What you mean is that it is subject to periodicities and forces which
> you do not understand, and that within your limited perception, this
> ignorance is taken as "irregularity". Just because the system
> encompasses rules and properties beyond your understanding and
> observation does not mean that it is magic.
You seem to have a strange interpretation of the word "irregular". All I
mean is that it does not rotate at a regular rate, i.e. smoothly. It is
not a regular oscillator.
Tony.
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