[LEAPSECS] leap minute or hour

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote in
 <202211142122.2AELMRiv024833 at critter.freebsd.dk>:
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 |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.

Heck.  As long as we all come together at the right time in
Stonehenge, everything is all right!

--steffen
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|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
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