From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Leap Seconds
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 07:02:12 GMT
Date: 2001-05-31T07:02:12+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <U%lR6.48994$%i7.38314611@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccsnhme0pd.fsf@world.std.com
>beer at 1,234,567,890.0 seconds after the epoch. It doesn't matter that
>my clock shows a different time than yours (because I count leap seconds
>and you don't,
Absolutely. If we agree, on January 1, 2003, to meet again in 365 days,
we will meet on January 1, 2004. If we then agree to meet after another
365 days, we'll meet on December 31, 2004, not on January 1, 2005. But if
we agree to meet on New Years Day, we'll meet in both cases on January 1.
If we agree to exchange radio signals after N seconds, no problem. If we
agree to exchange them daily at midnight, it will make a difference whether
we are both modifying our clocks for leap seconds, or not. Leap seconds
(or years) has nothing to do with the passage of time, only with the
naming of times.
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-25 14:17 Leap Seconds Marin David Condic
2001-05-25 22:02 ` Tucker Taft
2001-05-29 14:43 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-29 16:02 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-29 16:46 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-29 18:38 ` tmoran
2001-05-29 19:26 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 18:20 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-05-30 18:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 23:16 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-31 6:34 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
2001-05-31 9:27 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-05-31 15:31 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 7:55 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-06-01 13:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 15:24 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-01 16:18 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 20:28 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-04 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-04 16:05 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-04 16:15 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31 16:53 ` OT: Relativity misunderstood Wes Groleau
2001-05-31 17:20 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-31 19:00 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-01 6:49 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-06-04 17:51 ` [OT] Black holes for interstellar travel (Re: OT: Relativity misunderstood) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-06-05 14:07 ` Wes Groleau
2001-05-30 0:42 ` Leap Seconds Arthur Evans Jr
2001-05-30 10:14 ` AG
2001-05-30 11:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-31 16:34 ` Wes Groleau
2001-05-30 14:00 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 15:33 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-30 15:39 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31 2:01 ` Robert A Duff
2001-05-31 3:15 ` dale
2001-05-31 7:02 ` tmoran [this message]
2001-05-31 15:26 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31 16:39 ` Paul Storm
2001-06-02 6:40 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
2001-05-31 16:36 ` Wes Groleau
2001-05-31 18:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 16:36 ` Darren New
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