[LEAPSECS] Definition of Standard time - Brooks Harris

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Mon Feb 17 06:25:02 EST 2014


Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>

> Moving to atomic time doesn't undo 4500 years of timekeeping tradition.

> In fact, it restores the tradition of all minutes being the same length.


That is a relatively recent tradition compared to 4500 years :-)

Tony.
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