Warner Losh said: > Absolutely. We get leap days right because we don?t have to hear from the > pope?s astronomers every year to know if it will be a leap year or not. We > know for thousands of years.
And note that it was exactly that problem that led Caius Julius to reform the calendar in the first place. [...] > Another thing we could do is [...] Or we could decouple UTC from GMT and allow each country to decide when to change its offset. That subsumes the whole problem into the summer/winter time switch, or the "move past the International Date Line" switch, that the whole world knows how to handle, even if they don't all do it. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: cl...@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
