Dennis McCarthy Quotes

There is a philosophical feeling that abolishing the leap second results in greater decoupling of the time scale from rotation of the Earth, and that this is not a good thing. But we put up with daylight-savings time in the United States, and China has one time zone for the entire country. My own feeling is that we all live with departures.

- Dennis McCarthy

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The concern is for the future. Within the next century, it's almost certain that there will be years when we're putting in two (seconds) per year. - Dennis McCarthy

If I were a communications company and wanted to make sure I never got bothered [with a leap second], I'd create my own sort of internal time scale. Then there's a concern that if everyone started doing this, there'd be a [complete] lack of standardization. - Dennis McCarthy