[LEAPSECS] Happy New Year....

[Ashley Yakeley]

On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 13:52 -0800, blb8 at po.cwru.edu wrote:

> If the resolution is:

> 

> 1. Abolish leap seconds.

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> 2. Abolish leap days.

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> 3. Abolish daylight saving time.

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> 4. Abolish all time zones and adopt a new, single, world-wide timezone (TPT) that syncs with current UTC+0 at some point.

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> 5. TPT counts atomic seconds from that point.

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> 6. The IERS does the job that their name suggests and publishes tables of corrects for UT*-TPT so those that want to know can figure out where the sun is.

> 

> Then I'll vote for it.  I will permit amendments about the Gregorian calendar and a suitable replacement, but anything else would be a non-starter.


Perhaps we should also make all months 30 days long. We could then make
weeks ten days long to match.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley