Greg Egan on Nostr: Now that we’ve abolished leap seconds, and won’t tweak standard time to match the ...
Now that we’ve abolished leap seconds, and won’t tweak standard time to match the rotation of the Earth until the discrepancy reaches 1 hour, we should establish a generation-spanning secret society that shuffles objects around to make Earth’s spin conform to atomic time instead.
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