<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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It&#39;d be tough to get that through the Safety Committee.  Please see:<br>
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Munroe R. Leap Seconds. what if? 2014. <a href="https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/" target="_blank">https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/</a></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So we do it first, and _then_ tell everyone?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">&quot;People of Earth, UTC-TAI is now 0 [1]. You are welcome.&quot;<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[0] Why stop with UTC-TAI = constant?  We can dump a few extra astroids to unwind the changes since 1972.  Think big, Sirs, think big.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- <br>Sanjeev Gupta<br>+65 98551208     <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane</a></div></div>
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