[LEAPSECS] alternative to smearing

[Preben Nørager]

On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 18:11 +0100, John Sauter wrote:

"I am curious: since you do not think my moral concern is future
generations, what do you think it is?"

I think your moral concern is the misguided belief, that abolishing leap
seconds will mean our official time will depend solely on cesium atoms,
with no connection to the rotation of the earth. But that belief is in my
view misguided, because, as we have already agreed upon, our gregorian
calender keeps our time in synchronization with the seasons, as they appear
on earth because of the rotation of the earth around the sun. So the
connection between our time and earth rotation is in that way everlasting -
with leap seconds or without. But maybe you are a Brit who would just like
to se british time correspond to universal time forever?

Preben




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