I'm finding this news of the deceleration of the Earth and the fact that days are getting longer and longer a bit tricky to deal with...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 September 2011 21:23, Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Folks,<br>
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Does all /your/ software correctly handle 61 seconds in a minute?<br>
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Google have an ugly work-around:<br>
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Google reveals 'leap smear' NTP technique<br>
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/google_has_to_lie_to_computers_about_time/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/google_has_to_lie_to_computers_about_time/</a><br>
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For a more extreme example, take a look at Dr Taylor's clocks!<br>
<a href="http://chronophage.johnctaylor.com/chronophage_pages/aboutus_fulltext.php?itemid=5" target="_blank">http://chronophage.johnctaylor.com/chronophage_pages/aboutus_fulltext.php?itemid=5</a><br>
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To misquote a famous quote:<br>
The measurement of time is an artificial illusion (and reality is doubly so)!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Martin<br>
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