Comment by dooglius

Who is the "we" who wants to keep "in sync" with the Earth's rotation to such high precision? Obviously having 3:30 pm suddenly become the middle of the night would be bad, but we're talking a delta of 18 seconds spread over almost 50 years... hardly big enough to be called "out of sync" in any noticeable sense. Maybe in a millennium or two we'll lose the cultural context of what "it's 5:00 somewhere" meant, but I'm sure the historians could add a blurb.