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We live in a world where civil time moves by an hour 2x a year for no good reason. You FAR overstate the impact on civil society of failing to change it by a s
by btilly 4y ago
We live in a world where civil time moves by an hour 2x a year for no good reason.
You FAR overstate the impact on civil society of failing to change it by a second every so often.
Ironically even astronomers, who leap seconds were originally for, don't benefit because they need to know the Earth's rotation accurately to subsecond levels.