Re:Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one
by wmf on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:07PM
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That's why we should eliminate leap seconds/minutes/hours and just change time zone definitions to keep the sun overhead near noon.
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Re:Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one
by StefanKarpinski on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:17PM
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Is the concept that UTC would become "detached" from a particular location on Earth and the offset of time zones relative to UTC would change over time (very infrequently since it would take on the order of a millenium for a time zone to shift by half an hour).