Perchance something like this example worked with existing deployed and tested code? http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/right+gps.html

Watch the excitement unfold as recent kernel patches unravel http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today

The time service bureaus used to insert leap milliseconds at almost any time. See the bottom plot at http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/amsci.html where there were 29 leaps in 3 years.

Knowing of previous incidents, I suspect that itwbennett may have an interesting time when next dealing with Australian customs.

'laws and sausages' is attributed to von Bismarck. Is it not the case that every RFC is basically an international trade agreement? The process of making them is very different than ACTA. Which produces the more effective result?

There was also the Army Corps of Engineers model of the entire Mississippi/Missouri/Ohio/Arkansas/Red river basins. It was built by POW labor near Clinton, MS. See what's left of it here. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.30606,-90.316173&spn=0.003922,0.006335&sll=36.977452,-121.987122&sspn=0.118622,0.202732

I'm posting at 08:08 UTC

It is obvious that questions about this topic should be asked twice every year for the indefinite future in order that we can ponder the need for such.

Look at the amount that the pole moves and the length of day changes annually. The normal variations are 1000 times greater than anything the earthquake has caused. See the IERS saying "hardly discernible" because a large snowstorm can cause a greater change.

See the original text of the report.

The measure of length called a foot that we use for practical commerce was established in pretty much that way. See the story of the international foot as differed from the different foots which were already in widespread use.

Household products are sufficient, so who does not have easy access?

I think it is more like someone with OCD who can't stop cleaning things. This mentality makes them vulnerable to spend arbitrarily large amounts of effort accomplishing nothing simply by telling them there is a speck of dirt somewhere. It is beyond pedantry to the point of neurosis, if not psychosis.

There is prior art for foot-based interfaces

the deviation is quadratic, so an hour accumulates 800 to 900 years