Roger Stapleton scripsit:
> Yesterday morning over a cup of coffee I floated the question of
> leapseconds and their abolition passed a couple of friends in the
> University IT Services dept. One quickly decided that leapseconds were
> the obvious solution, then realised we have them, and wondered what the
> problem was.
The problem is that they are not announced much in advance, and one needs
to keep a list of them back to 1972 which grows quadratically in size.
> Sorry nothing posative in this - but then users of clock-on-the-wall time
> are always going to be a problem.
We have met the enemy and he is us, in fact. We are all users of civil time
first and foremost.
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John Cowan jcowan_at_reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com ccil.org/~cowan
Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos --Lithuanian proverb
Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem --Latin version thereof
Deity donated dentition;
deity'll donate doughnuts --English version by Muke Tever
God gave gums; God'll give granary --Version by Mat McVeagh
Received on Wed Jan 29 2003 - 09:57:05 PST