On 20 January 2012 14:31, Daniel R. Tobias <d...@tobias.name> wrote: > On 20 Jan 2012 at 17:26, Mark Calabretta wrote: > > > If UTC is discontinuous in any sense then so must the Gregorian > > calendar be, with a "discontinuity" 86400 times greater on Feb/29. > > You don't even have to wait for a leap year for a non-uniform radix, > since you've already got that in "30 days hath September" and the > rest of the month lengths. >
There are four key elements of date/time that vary: - month lengths - leap years - DST & permanent offset changes - leap seconds And those are in decreasing order of importance. Some have suggested that leap seconds could be absorbed as a "permanent offset change". One of the proposals that should be written up is how that would work. Stephen
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