REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Mon Jun 22 14:17:53 UTC 2015

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 08:29 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:15:41PM +0100,
>  Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote
>  a message of 15 lines which said:
>
> > The problems are that UTC is unpredictable,
>
> That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time based on
> this buggy planet's movements will be unpredictable. Let's patch it
> now!
>
> So, what we should do is make clocks move. 99999 slower half of the year
(and then speed back up) so that we're really in line with earth's
rotational time. I mean we've got the computers to do it (I think most RTC
only go down to thousandths so it'll still need a little skewing but I'm
sure we'll manage).

Ps - if anyone actually does this, I'm going postal.