Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada,comp.programming,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux.ubuntu Subject: Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 01:26:04 -0000 Organization: ~ Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <5f5afd36-1ba2-f4e2-62ef-57a652f3170c@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:35522 comp.lang.c:101211 comp.lang.ada:32718 comp.programming:7269 alt.comp.os.windows-10:32685 alt.os.linux.ubuntu:194685 On Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:15:14 -0000, Osmium wrote: > "James Wilkinson Sword" wrote: > >> Also, I've yet to see a reason why we can't just live with being 1 second >> different to sunrise.... > > I think we can. But since there is more than a minutes error accumulated > during a person's lifetime, I am glad someone is doing this. > > I am fascinated by the fact that they *can* do this. I would assume that > this requires rough agreement (a few milliseconds difference) between > measurements made at different observatories. These are on different > plates of this earth, and these plates are drifting, earthquakes are moving > the observatories, and so on. . > > GPS is not an answer, it intrinsically has the same problems. My god if you got up and had to wait a whole minute extra for the sun to rise, it would sure screw your head up wouldn't it? -- Warning: Do not attempt to stop chainsaw with testicles.