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"Once the drift is appreciable, the argument goes, a correction could be added much further down the line, perhaps by adding a leap minute or hour." Well.. if
by akira2501 11y ago
"Once the drift is appreciable, the argument goes, a correction could be added much further down the line, perhaps by adding a leap minute or hour."
Well.. if the leap second is any lesson, that should go smoothly and be really easy to implement.
- blahedo 11y agoTrue, although for the same reasons that "fail fast" is sometimes better than the alternatives, a "leap hour"---being much easier to perceive than a leap second---may be easier to work with. At least then you'll know if someone's off because they didn't leap, vs some sort of clock drift or other error.
- greglindahl 11y agoWait - for "fail fast" reasons, we're going to do something important every few thousand years, instead of about once a year?!
- upofadown 11y agoIf it is an hour then you would just change the time zones ... assuming that we even still have those.