[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Ian Batten]

On 18 Jan 2014, at 07:18, Clive D.W. Feather <clive at davros.org> wrote:

> 

> Removing future leap seconds won't change the legal definition of the word

> "day" anywhere. What it does mean is that, in countries using "UTC" as part

> of the legal definition, the centre of the night will drift away from 00:00

> before stepping back again. 


Which of course it does anyway, over the course of a year.    "Oh noes, 12:00 won't be noon any more"
is a ship that sailed with the arrival of mean time, sank with the adoption of national timezones rather than 
local time on a per-town basis, and whose wreck was then dynamited to avoid causing trouble to shipping 
with the arrival of daylight savings time.

ian