Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
by N19PEDL2 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:17AM
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> Switching to "leap hours" would involve a good part of the world living with about 9am sunrise (or a 3:30pm sunset) for hundreds of years.
Can we switch to leap minutes instead? In the worst case it would mean to adjust the time once in 30 years, which means that astronomers and software engineers would have to deal with this problem no more than 3 times in a century. Fair enough IMHO.
Can we switch to leap minutes instead? In the worst case it would mean to adjust the time once in 30 years, which means that astronomers and software engineers would have to deal with this problem no more than 3 times in a century. Fair enough IMHO.