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

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jan 6 13:53:22 EST 2012


In message <2B82F82A-C0C6-4697-BC05-DF3FDA13CC4E at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>And then UTC-9, UTC-10, etc., decade after decade.


Somebody from approximately 8000 years in the future just landed
their time-machine in my living-room and asked me to relay: "Tell
my 320-times-great-granddad that he can save himself a lot of time
by not trying to outguess how we will deal with timezones by the
time DUT1 amounts to an hour per decade."


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