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Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds
Mortimer.CA writes "As discussed on Slashdot previously, there is a proposal to remove leap seconds from UTC (nee 'Greenwich' time). It will be put to a vote to ITU member states during 2008, and if 70% agree, the leap second will be eliminated by 2013. There is some debate as to whether this change is a good or bad idea. The proposal calls for a 'leap-hour' in about 600 years, which nobody seems to believe is a good idea. One philosophical point opponents make is that the 'official' time on Earth should match the time of the sun and heavens."
Just hang on a sec....
We can ignore the problem then too. Eventually, morning and evening will be on different days. We might just gain or lose a whole day. Heck, we can ignore the problem forever. We'll be off by a year, then a decade...
Ok guys. We're in California, it's midday 26th June while I have snow falling on my face and I can't see shit because it's new moon.
How many seconds was it already?
I've been keeping time with my sundial and temple-top observatory the way Ra intended! Damn you kids and your new-fangled timekeeping.
Why use metric time when you can use Imperial time!!!
In other news, people in 2612 voted to put off the issue of 'leap hours' until 16412, where they propose to add a 'leap day', ostensibly in February.
This is why I refuse to set the time on my VCR...
788652 = 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 19 x 1153
Or better, wake up at 256, eat lunch at 512 andd GOTO sleep at 1024.
Yeah, this 600 years stuff is nice but who will remember to adjust clocks in 600 years? It's far better to have an instantaneous solution to the problem than a remote one.
Stupidity is the root of all evil.
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Yay, imperial time!
The smallest unit is the "Moment", and then the "While" (or, less used, the "Whilst"). A while is about 14.4 moments. Then you have the "long while", which is 13.8 whiles, then the "time", and "long time"...
For example, it took me a while and three moments to write this comment. I'm not a quick typer...
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We could just fire off some nukes every six months or year to control the orbital speed of the earth around the sun. Just keep tuning the orbit to our atomic clocks instead of vice-versa.
Maybe he's talking about Mr Nobody.
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Who wants to bet that in 600 years, they'll decide to scrap the leap-hour and instead have a leap-day in 13800 years?
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I think it would be soo much easier to throw away our clocks & base everything on the number of seconds since 00:00:00 January 1st 1979 from now on.
Come on it's been nearly 2008 years since we had BC, it's time for a change !
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Yes, and tomorrow when the sun is exactly in the south at 12:40:00.0164 PM you will be completely disoriented, because when you use that sun to navigate the 10 km between your home and work you will end up at 0.0164 meters from your intended location.
sure, [eliminating leap seconds] may save a few lives... but thousands will be late
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16412 is also a leap year The extra day in February would be the ultra rare 30th of February. It's worth doing even if you have to wait 14405 years for it work.
Travelling forward in time at a rate of 1 second per second.
That's right, it is a good idea.
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Or, a closed fist could represent 6.
Or, why stop at 12? Just use your ten fingers to represent a binary number. Make sure you order the bits properly! We'd certainly end up a more dexterous population...
^o^
That would be an interesting transition period as people got used to indicating or recognizing the numbers 4 or 128...
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That's a long time to wait for a birthday for the poor kid born on Feb 30th!
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Won't somebody think of the sundials!? I mean, c'mon! Sundials are cool and important! And what about Stonehenge?
Actually, I'm in favor of keeping UT1 and TAI in sync. But not for the sundials
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