Guy Harris via tz wrote in <500A8B25-FD29-4448-8F84-C388EC817A7C@sonic.net>: |On Jan 9, 2024, at 2:12 PM, Brooks Harris <brooks@edlmax.com> wrote: |> the incommensurability between UTC with leap-seconds | |TO what incommensurability are you referring? UTC's happy to go from \ |23:59:59 to 23:59:60. Not only UTC. I have see many shining eyes watching clocks doing that step, children, announcement in widely watch TV of public law, with all the thousands of years of culture and science that lead to this magic moment of understanding in the endless void of physical universe. It is a shame it is thrown away, and that mail of the female commissioner who had this "fruitful" meeting -- i refer to the official thing that was posted on the leapseconds list -- screams for repeating "O tempora, O mores!" Thank you. --End of <500A8B25-FD29-4448-8F84-C388EC817A7C@sonic.net> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)