> Well, the problem with this is that every simplistic view at time is... well... too simple. It's not that many people haven't tried, I especially like this article: https://qntm.org/abolish
This has nothing to do with leap seconds. Leap seconds are the worst mechanism in keeping time, there's not a single advantage to having leap seconds.
> A day is defined as the rotation of the earth around its axis.
And we can now measure time with precision high enough that tying to Earth's rotation is not acceptable. We can still use timezones to fix the shift.
> Changing any of these will make the summer drift into the winter, or the night into the day, or whatever.
Yeah, and it will take a millennium for Earth rotation to shift enough for people to notice it. On the other hand, you'd have no problem with summer/winter time I presume?
> Yeah, and it will take a millennium for Earth rotation to shift enough for people to notice it. On the other hand, you'd have no problem with summer/winter time I presume?
No, I don't, as they are just views on a monotonically increasing time scale named UTC that keeps up with Earth's rotation, so that every single thing from climate diagrams to everything else humanity is syncing on keeps working and being comparable.
> We can still use timezones to fix the shift.
Or, we could not do that. Everyone is free to use TAI inside their own projects as they see fit if they have the needs for strictly monotonically increasing time. I would argue that leap second smearing has way less artifacts in practice than bolting time zones onto a shifting UTC time.
This has nothing to do with leap seconds. Leap seconds are the worst mechanism in keeping time, there's not a single advantage to having leap seconds.
> A day is defined as the rotation of the earth around its axis.
And we can now measure time with precision high enough that tying to Earth's rotation is not acceptable. We can still use timezones to fix the shift.
> Changing any of these will make the summer drift into the winter, or the night into the day, or whatever.
Yeah, and it will take a millennium for Earth rotation to shift enough for people to notice it. On the other hand, you'd have no problem with summer/winter time I presume?