[LEAPSECS] leap minute or hour

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

--------
Eric Scace writes:

> If a leap minute were to be added/removed at some future date
> when UTC became significantly more that 30 seconds different from
> mean solar time, [...]

Thanks to timezones and DST, less than 1% of the worlds population
live where mean solar time is correct to a minute.

I doubt the will manage to convince the other 99+% to do something
as deranged as a leap-minute.

Full hour shifts, on the other hand, can be done merely by changing
the time-zone, and they can be done through the normal political
process, aligned to recognized borders.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.