Re: leap second might be the last one!

Marc Brett wrote: 
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 04:10:19 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The U.S. has proposed abolishing future leap seconds as
the adjustment is primarily made for the sake of navigators making traditional
astronomical observations with sextants. Global Positioning System (GPS)
operations are unaffected by the introduction of a leap second, because its
time, GPS Time is not adjusted.



Let me get this straight -- We should abolish leap seconds, and a billion years
of tracking time via the sun, because nobody (well almost nobody) uses sextants
anymore?  WTF?

The merchants of fear should be the first against the wall when the
reality-based revolutionaries burn down Washington DC.  How many air-traffic
control centers had problems over the New Year?  How many GLONASS satellites
failed?  None!

Maybe the USA should invest in educating young people instead.  Then when they
grew up to become programmers they would know that sometimes minutes have 61
seconds and systems can be designed to cope with such a strange concept.  It'd
make a refreshing change from the faith-based education policies which take ID
seriously and allow military recruiters and ChannelOne to further pollute our
youngsters with monumental lies.

</rant> 

  Personally I like leap seconds to keep thing synced up, Marc.


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