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Re: Dropping leap seconds and the impact on celestial navigation
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2011 Sep 11, 08:54 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2011 Sep 11, 08:54 +0100
At 17:24 10/09/2011, Fred Hebard wrote: >Frank, > >I can offer no opinion on the navigational aspects of this, but I >wonder what will happen 200 years from now. Will noon be 11:30 >am? That would be unacceptable to me. Is it really that difficult >to keep the leap seconds convention going? Fred, I would imagine that for cities like Austin or Fort Worth or Dallas in Texas, Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, Wichita in Kansas, Omaha in Nebraska, Sioux Falls in South Dakota, they already have "noon" at 11:30. Like Frank, I would be interested to hear why it would be "unacceptable" for you to live in those cities... ;-) Regards Geoffrey
