[tz] Leap seconds in the news

[Tony Finch]

Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> A higher-tech approach to deal with leap seconds would be to launch yourself
> into space at sufficient velocity so that when you return, relativistic time
> dilation would cause your POSIX clock to match an earthbound UTC clock.

If we have that kind of energy budget, maybe we could adjust the earth's
rotation rate to match our clocks. http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/

Tony.
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