In message <4ec51a73.6664.2a84f...@dan.tobias.name>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes:
>On 17 Nov 2011 at 11:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>It seems rather bizarre that they'd have to *change* a standard in 
>order to *keep on following* the standard that's been in effect since 
>1972, namely the use of leap seconds.

Well, same situation as UNIX, Windows and pretty much any other
operating system in the world.

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