In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>Why are you so convinced that there couldn't possibly be negative
>ramifications associated with the unexamined assumptions underlying
>the distinction between time-of-day and interval time? Or simply
>with the unwarranted assumption that one single timescale applies in
>all cases? Claiming that "leap seconds are bad, we'll be safer
>without them" doesn't make it so. Some systems will fail when DUT1 >
>1s.
You answer the question yourself: The system would have to have
some knowledge about UT1 before lack of leap seconds would hurt it.
There are two ways the system could get UT1:
a) Somebody designs in a datacommunication channel for it
b) Stare at something in the universe.
The sum of those two cases is epsilon compared to the total number
of computing installations which doesn't have correct leap-second
handling.
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