Re: Multilingual conversion - Ideas ?

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Judson McClendon wrote:
> "Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Judson McClendon wrote:
> >> One calendar that is highly standardized, though the use is narrow, is
> >> the Julian Calendar used by astronomers.
> >
> > Slight problem with that one. If your American atomic clock watchers do
> > away with the leap second (and if European clock watchers retain it)....
>
> Have you heard that something of the kind is in the offing? If so I'm quite
> surprised. :-)
> --
> Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
> Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
> "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
> whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

Yes, there certainly is a change proposed, though it is still under
consideration with some considerable opposition and the proposed date
has now been put back by several years.

A good reference is at
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html#Event2005-05

As I understand it, the plan is to replace leap seconds by leap hours
of which the first would not be necessary for about 500 years. For the
average citizen, this would lead to no worse a glitch than changing to
and from summer time, for computer systems, the lack of leap seconds
for the industrial foreseeable future (a few decades) would make time
management much easier, though navigational, astronomical and similar
systems would have had some problems if the change were to have taken
place as soon as originally planned. There would be a need for a
larger offset to distinguish between UT1 and UTC, which would
probably/hopefully be given another name, though some people still use
the term GMT, which I think the British Admiralty insisted on
continuing to use after 1925 when the start of the GMT day changed from
noon to midnight and the government went along with, perhaps an 'order
in council' was made.

There might be a lot of programmers cursing in 500 years, on the other
had it may well be that systems will be largely automatically developed
and provided a few years/decades notice were given the change could
then be factored in with little difficulty. Another benefit of
switching to leap hours is that eventually the need for leap seconds
would become much more frequent and arguably the use of leap hours
would be easier in the very long term future.

Robert

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