On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:17:27 GMT
Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:14:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Maas,
> see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
> 
> >- Stick to astronomical time, which is absolutely consistent but
> >   which drifts from legal time?
> 
> depends what you are measuring. IF you are doing astronomy, your
> advice would apply. If you are doing payrolls, you want effectively to
> pretend the leap seconds never happened, just as Java does.

        Which leaves you about 30 seconds out by now - smelly.

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