Time Gurus

The concept of time is a metaphor. No such thing as “time” in the physical world exists. It is a creation of the human mind, and it regulates our lives. The modern world could not exist without the regulation of “time”.
This is something that you all “instinctively” know and understand. However, you probably didn’t know that there are “Time Keepers” that are manipulating time to “fit” the solar-system’s movements. I find this very amusing. What does a “time keeper” do on a regular basis anyway? How can there even exist such a thing as a “time keeper committee”? Who appoints/pays these people that can affect our lives so much?
The fact is, the existence of such a committee, which can “change time”, underlines the reality that “time” is not a fixed object or concept. It can be altered. And the solar system does not circulate in exactly regular intervals, like clocks.


Extract from an article from Google News:

“There have been 22 leap seconds inserted since the current system of atomic time-keeping began in 1972, but this is the first one for seven years.
The change is controversial, with some experts pushing for the leap second to be abolished because it causes unpredictable and potentially dangerous disruptions in precision software applications used to run mobile phone networks, air traffic control and power grids.
The US delegation to the International Telecommunication Union has proposed that the maximum difference between UTC and solar time be increased from 0.9 seconds to one hour, making a further adjustment unnecessary for hundreds of years. But others insist that “clock time” should closely track “Sun time” as it has done since the days of the sundial.”

Maybe it is just a hoax to skrew up our software and make us buy more software with the "right time"!