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Why would we ever need a leap minute? Just let time zones drift. Unless you happen to be at the exact longitude for which your time zone is correct, the sun's n
by School-Cotton 4y ago
Why would we ever need a leap minute? Just let time zones drift. Unless you happen to be at the exact longitude for which your time zone is correct, the sun's not at its highest point in the sky for you at exactly noon anyway.
Eventually, thousands of years from now when time has drifted by an hour or more (assuming modern technological civilization even still exists by then), each jurisdiction can just change their time zone's offset from UTC, without coordinating with anyone else. Jurisdictions making time zone changes is a well-understood situation that we already know how to deal with.
- AnotherGoodName 4y agoThe last part is right and is also why we have this problem. Leap seconds are an architectural blunder that always belonged in the abstraction layer that lines up the sun with the rotation of earth (the time zone abstraction). It never belonged in the part that counts seconds.
- School-Cotton 4y agoThat's a great way of putting it!
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- Maxion 4y agoThis is definitely the most interesting point in this whole comment chain.
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