[IP] Leap second fight brewing

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: "Wulf Losee"<qx49@comcast.net>
Sent: 7/29/05 10:23:15 AM
To: "dave@farber.net"<dave@farber.net>
Subject: Leap second fight brewing

Dave:
The US has secretly proposed abolishing the leap second (that is 
ocassionally added as the earth slows its rotation) claiming "safety" 
reasons. Evidently this is at the behest of special interests whose 
software is unable to deal with the additional second.

 From the WSJ online: "Word of the U.S. proposal, made secretly to a United 
Nations body, began leaking to scientists earlier this month. The plan 
would simplify the world's timekeeping by making each day last exactly 24 
hours."

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB112258962467199210-H9je4Nilal4o52nbYCIbq6Em4,00.html

--Wulf




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