Oct. 5, 2022
2:51 a.m.
Paul wrote:
On 10/4/22 13:15, Michael H Deckers via tz wrote:
in Paris will vote on the proposal D on pages 7..8 and 23..24
For those who haven't seen it, this proposal would abolish leap seconds... Although this obviously won't work in the long term, leap seconds wouldn't work either because days will become too long for them too.
As I understand it, one way of looking at the new, leap-secondless plan is that if you wait long enough, the multi-minute jump that you then need isn't a "leap" anything, it's a political change to the definition of a time zone, readily handled by the well-tried mechanism that we on this list all know and love.