-------- In message <alpine.deb.2.11.1710241530180.22...@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony Finch writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> >> If you magically got all the paperwork changed, you would see a >> repeat of the GMT fiasco, where UTC is still called "GMT" 50 years >> later... > >GMT has had many definitions over its lifetime, including a 12h step, so >I'm not convinced that polysemy is a world-ending disaster.
The parallel is not as convincing as you may think. Back then, the people who worked with stuff where it made a difference knew what they were doing, being generally people with "phd." after their name. If you tried to 'fix' things by adding a timescale now, 99.9% of the people who needed to react are not clued. -- 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 https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs