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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>Outside of astronomical calculations, is there any relevance? Wouldn't it make more sense for the astronomers to adjust their calculations than for the whole world to adjust the clocks?</div><div><br></div>Alas, it would probably be easier to convince the world to set their clocks by TAI than it would be to remove leap seconds from the definition of UTC. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Easier" being a relative term.</span><div><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: paul@ganssle.io<br>Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:15:49 -0500<br>To: Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca<br>CC: time-nuts@febo.com; tz@iana.org<br>Subject: Re: [tz] Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to retain “leap second”<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_extra">At least they seem to be deferring decision rather than actively deciding in favor of leap seconds. Still, is anyone actually advocating in favor of leap seconds? Who is being helped by keeping mean solar time at noon UTC or whatever the point of leap seconds is?</div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Brian Inglis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca" target="_blank">Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><a href="http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2015/53.aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2015/53.aspx</a><span class="ecxHOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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