On Tue 2014-01-07T15:56:46 -0800, Brooks Harris hath writ: > own, and, on the other, oh isn't there please something we could do > about it?
Nations, provinces, cities, and sub-populations within cities are sovereign and subject to their politicians and bureaucrats. This is not a technical problem. All in all the tz database has consisted of something less than 200 timezones. That's countable and manageable, mostly. One price for this is that right now every Mac and iPhone/Pad/Pod in Jordan is off by an hour because Jordan changed their daylight rules around the same time as tz changed its layout. Apple relies on the code from the ICU-project. ICU relies on CLDR. CLDR wraps itself around as a reinterpretation of the tz data. It will be at least a couple more weeks before these layers catch up with the changes. Leap seconds are more predictable than time zones. Speaking of which, based on IERS Bulletin A it looks unlikely that there will be a June 30 leap, and somewhat likely that there could be a December 31 leap. A December 31 leap would be temptingly close to the impending 2015 ITU-R Radiocommunications Assembly -- close enough to ponder whether someone might engineer a leap catastrophe in order to influence the votes of the RA delegates. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
