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

[Ian Batten]

On 5 Jan 2012, at 23:49, Rob Seaman wrote:


> Tony Finch wrote:

> 

>> I reckon the timezone fudge is workable for rate errors as large as 1e-5,

>> which would imply a timezone change every 11 years.

>> 

>> More speculation along these lines: http://fanf.livejournal.com/116480.html

> 

> And I have reckoned the exact opposite.  A leap hour or timezone shift per decade is way too frequent for people to put up with. 


Why not?  They handle DST shifts every six months.  What's the difference for 99% of the population?

ian