[154463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Wed Jul 4 23:39:53 2012
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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:39:17 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/4/12, William Herrin <bill@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
