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Re:Leap-second decision delayed by eight years by brudgers on Saturday November 21, 2015 @08:13PM (#10608674)
UTC does not bear an appreciably worse relationship to my local solar time than GMT. For that matter, at the granularity of seconds my time zone is pretty far off from solar time and 20 miles down the road is about as bad but an hour earlier.

Clocks are useful for coordinating human events. The idea that they have some deep relationship to the cosmos is a conceit as useless as the geocentric solar system model.

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Re:Leap-second decision delayed by eight years by c22 on Saturday November 21, 2015 @11:54PM (#10609136)
Except historically some humans have found it useful to coordinate certain events to, say, recur at the same time of winter every year so suddenly a deeper relationship to the cosmos becomes necessary.
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Re:Leap-second decision delayed by eight years by brudgers on Sunday November 22, 2015 @04:47AM (#10609604)
By "deep of winter" can I assume you were referring to July?
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Re:Leap-second decision delayed by eight years by c22 on Sunday November 22, 2015 @06:16PM (#10611945)
No, winter was an arbitrary example. Humans need to track yearly events during all seasons.
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