In message <7ebbba3729a346d5b0aeb73d6d73b...@pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:
>What would happen if instead of getting rid of leap seconds >we had *more* of them? It really depends on only one thing: How long time in advance do you announce which way the leapsecond goes for a given month ? If we get 10 years firm notice, we can stick a table in the operating system and the majority of the worlds programmers will not have to think about it. If we still get 6 only months notice, your proposal will cost so much money that it will probably never be seriously considered. The only intrinsic benefit of your proposal, is that it will become possible to actually test the leap-second handling code in a regular project life-cycle. Either way: There's no getting around that just dropping leap seconds is a no-cost option for computers. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
