> From: Daniel R. Tobias <[email protected]> > > ... Meanwhile, the good old leap YEAR had a victim in the > Micro$oft Zume players, so are we going to see calls to abolish leap > days because programmers get them wrong, so all years should just be > 365 days long and it doesn't matter if the dates of the year rotate > through the seasons
If the resolution is: 1. Abolish leap seconds. 2. Abolish leap days. 3. Abolish daylight saving time. 4. Abolish all time zones and adopt a new, single, world-wide timezone (TPT) that syncs with current UTC+0 at some point. 5. TPT counts atomic seconds from that point. 6. The IERS does the job that their name suggests and publishes tables of corrects for UT*-TPT so those that want to know can figure out where the sun is. Then I'll vote for it. I will permit amendments about the Gregorian calendar and a suitable replacement, but anything else would be a non-starter. Brian Blackmore [email protected] http://home.cwru.edu/~blb8 PGP keys not at http://cheese.cwru.edu/PGP/PGP.html (ask me for them) _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
