[LEAPSECS] nails in the coffin of mean solar time

[Greg Hennessy]

> As I have said before: if astronomers played their hand wisely,

> they'd say "We can live without leapseconds if you give us $N to

> handle the transition", they might be able to get some nice

> upgrades to instrumentation out of this.


Doesn't that work in the other direction as well? Can't computer folk
say "we can live with leapseconds if you give us $N to handle it?" You
might get some nice upgrades to hardware out of this. . .