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> If we end leap seconds, it doesn't take long - only until 2028 - until "midnight" is sufficiently far from "the middle of the night" that you will have to con
by DSMan195276 4y ago
> If we end leap seconds, it doesn't take long - only until 2028 - until "midnight" is sufficiently far from "the middle of the night" that you will have to consider the legal issues caused by events that happen just before or after 0000 hours.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. If we stopped introducing leap seconds, then why would the legal world still care about them?
- whateveracct 4y agoI'm assuming because timestamps exist to capture time in the real world
- alecbz 4y agoWhat do you mean by "time in the real world"? The relative position of the sun to someone on Earth? _Some_ legal uses of time are probably concerned with this, but I'd think it's a pretty small minority.
- ncmncm 4y agoIslamic time is, technically, but does not distinguish seconds. So, the only place where it could matter, it doesn't.
- jjoonathan 4y agoI can believe that a desperate lawyer would argue the semantic distinction between clock-midnight and solar-midnight, but I have trouble believing that this would amount to anything more than one more dumb nit on a pile of dumb nits that the court has to deal with every day.
- Ekaros 4y agoAlso I think it would go through legal system in a few years and end decision is that clock-midnight is one that will be followed. Or even have legislation to agree on that and set single law.
- DSMan195276 4y agoThey can already argue that though, since solar-midnight is not the same as clock-midnight anyway due to timezones. Really, timezones already create this difference for the majority of people, and to a much larger degree than leap seconds likely ever will.