[LEAPSECS] a big week for leaps at SG7 and WP7A

[Tony Finch]

Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
>
> I can safely say from my experience there, that if leap seconds are
> abolished it will not be with the British peoples approval.

I got the impression from the emphasis on non-technical aspects that the
consultation was designed to get that answer. It's easy to persuate the
British public to vote no.

And I seem to remember from reading the materials that they also ignored
the cultural damage that was done by the introduction of leap seconds in
the first place, breaking a multi-thousand-year tradition of base 60
fractions, making all mechanical clocks obsolete, and so on.

Tony.
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