John Cowan wrote at 11:15 -0500 on Dec 18, 2008: > Rob Seaman scripsit: > > Because the past remains with us, and the future requires planning.
In addition to what John Cowan said, I'd also point out that planning is the one of the biggest issues with leap seconds. In terms of planning for the future, if an application cares about local time, not knowing whether a leap second is going to happen outside a six month window can be a much larger problem than handling sliding time zones that would happen much less frequently and, one would think, with considerably more advance notice. For those that are in favor of the current system of leap seconds, it might be more effective to pretend that people don't have to plan for the future than to remind them in the opening sentence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs