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> Leap seconds are needed in civil time because people's schedules are still dominated by the Sun. Not to the second, maybe not even to the hour. Sometimes mul
by nitwit005 2y ago
> Leap seconds are needed in civil time because people's schedules are still dominated by the Sun. Not to the second, maybe not even to the hour.
Sometimes multiple hours off. China has a single time zone.
As far as I can tell, people care very little about the clocks being in sync with the sun. We've effectively run massive experiments demonstrating this.
- gmiller123456 2y agoWhat experiments are those? I don't doubt if you lock someone in a room they'll lose sync with the sun, but people in society do rely on it. The fact that we use DST in the face of very vocal opposition shows a lot of people do care about it. The existence of China as an outlier isn't much evidence. The most people on one side do not keep the same schedule as those on the other. If daylight really weren't an issue, there would be only one timezone for the entire Earth. So you can't point to one while ignoring the reason all of the others exist.