I don't see the need for keeping UTC within a second of UT, either. I also think the Gregorian correction is a little silly, but at least it only rears its head 3 times in 400 years.
Still, that horse has sailed, right? Perl 6 is using TAI, and the burden of correcting for civil time is on the implementation. I wasn't trying to re-raise the spectre of leap seconds. I just want to know what Perl 6 time zero is. On Saturday, February 20, 2010, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allb...@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: > (re subject: does it go `Ding!' when there's Stuff?) > > On Feb 20, 2010, at 00:30 , Larry Wall wrote: > > but an astronomer? But no, many millions of computers have to accommodate > to the convenience of a very few people. And most computers still don't > know how to do even that accommodation, since POSIX time is blissfully > unaware of leap seconds... > > Sorry, you pushed one of my hot buttons. Grrr! :) > > > > Not just yours; quite a few of us wish NTP would return to the demesne of mad > scientists and astronomers, to be replaced by a saner (i.e. non-leap-second) > version of SNTP. > > -- > brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com > system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu > electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH > > > -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
