[154462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Jul 4 22:56:37 2012
To: Brett Frankenberger <rbf+nanog@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:01:50 -0500."
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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:55:24 -0400
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:01:50 -0500, Brett Frankenberger said:
> No. Leap Years arise because the solar year is not an integral
> multiple of the solar day.
And leap seconds arise because the astronomical day is not
an integral multiple of the hour, minute, or second. Same problem.
> still hold. There's virtually no chance that on a hypothetical Earth
> that wasn't slowing, that population would have decided that the
> second should be 1/86400.005 of a solar day.
Look up the *original* definition of the meter, and think about the
phrase "measurement error".
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