In message <f8d6cdf0-810e-41b5-bf97-e51eab051...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: >Warner Losh wrote: > >> The current ITU proposal would have the effect of moving the coupling of the >> Earth's rotation from the time that is broadcast (now called UTC) to the >> timezones that local governments promulgate. > >This would be chaos for anyone needing to compare timestamps in >different locales and eras.
Welcome to our world. You're right. It is. But that has nothing todo with UTC having leap seconds or not, that has everything to do with politicians meddling in affairs they lack wizard points to understand. -- 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
