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> each day has 24 hours 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds > at midnight your martian clock would show the time as 24:39:35 for a fraction of a second A similar id
by N19PEDL2 4y ago
> each day has 24 hours 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds
> at midnight your martian clock would show the time as 24:39:35 for a fraction of a second
A similar idea could be to have exactly 24h 39min 35s each day (i.e. the last second before midnight is 24:39:34), then add a leap second every 4 days to compensate for the missing 0.244s, then skip it when the 0.006s errors cumulate up to 1s.
This just because in my opinion it is easier to live with leap seconds than with non-integer seconds.
- kubanczyk 4y agoIs the difference in quality of life so dramatic with a day wrapping on non-integer seconds when both proposals wrap at non-integer minutes and non-integer hours? The real question is why stop at miliseconds - it seems inconsequential. Go all the way down and assume that as the hour/minute/second granularity all proved insufficient in the past, the same way milliseconds would become insufficient one day. Make the period parameterizable (i.e. not a constant), with only the current value at 24 hours 39 minutes 35 seconds 244 milliseconds.
- throw0101a 4y ago> This just because in my opinion it is easier to live with leap seconds than with non-integer seconds. That is not the opinion of a bunch of folks who want to get rid of the leap second on Earth: * https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03783-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03783-5 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658541 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658541
- N19PEDL2 4y agoBut no one is proposing to have non-integer seconds as a solution to get rid of the leap seconds.