[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4FF19D3C.4050602 at earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes:

>which is an interesting thing.. if instead of DST (for which I think 
>there's little practical reason to have in the first place).. say you 
>just shifted the clock one minute earlier or later each day, gradually 
>moving it to the new alignment relative to solar day.

Why bother ?

Just make everybody use TAI and make T-O-D alignment a cultural
thing rather than a numerological superstition ?

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