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About half of the world would 15+ minutes away from sun directly overhead at noon if hour-aligned time zones worked correctly, leapseconds are "solving" a "prob
by naniwaduni 2y ago
About half of the world would 15+ minutes away from sun directly overhead at noon if hour-aligned time zones worked correctly, leapseconds are "solving" a "problem" at a level of precision wildly at odds with actual usage.
- mlyle 2y agoThere's the astronomical applications, where a second error corresponds to a couple of arcseconds of precision, which is just a bit better than most applications want.