On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Rob Seaman wrote: > > Folks keep fretting here about retrieving lists of leap seconds > autonomously, although no specific use case is proffered about why > one needs to use UTC to measure intervals across various and sundry > leap second events.
You need to do so in order to implement an accurate clock, since the clock produces interval time and you need a way to convert its output to time of day. > M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Daylight savings time and time zones prove that society at large has a > > very high tolerance for variations between the mean solar time at an > > arbitrary location, maybe hundreds of miles away, and the local time. > > This is a static offset. No, it is subject to arbitrary political variations. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ SHANNON: SOUTHERLY BECOMING CYCLONIC GALE 8 TO STORM 10, OCCASIONALLY VIOLENT STORM 11. HIGH. RAIN OR SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE, OCCASIONALLY POOR.