[LEAPSECS] "China move could call time on GMT"

[Nero Imhard]

Ian Batten wrote:


> I think there's a certain degree of hubris involved in any discussion in

> which you attempt to solve problems that will not be confronted for

> thousands of years.


True. But there is quite a bit of arrogance involved in *causing* such
problems.

Fundamentally changing the semantics of a time scale while retaining the
name WILL be a future source of confusion. This can be prevented by
properly changing over legal time to a uniform time scale (which seems to
be the requirement).

N