[LEAPSECS] Leap seconds decision deferred until 2015

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Jan 20 03:30:53 EST 2012




> This works only when mars is an isolated world. If there were commerce

> between mars and earth, or other need to regularly communicate, then there

> would be demand for a uniform time scale for both, just like there was

> demand for a uniform time between cities that shared proximity 150 years

> ago.


So all we have to do is procrastinate or muddle through until we develop
serious commerce with Mars. Then we will have a bigger problem to sort out
and we can toss Earth based leap seconds into the mess without any serious
problems.

I like it. 1/2 :)




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