In message <[email protected]>, Peter Vince writes: >I am trying to clarify in my mind a couple of proposals, one of which is >having no more leap-seconds in the civil (broadcast) >time scale. I'm sorry, I must have missed your messages where you said that a >lot of software would fail in that scenario - >could you briefly clarify please?
There is one (major) problem: software does not grok leapseconds. One of the solutions Rob peddles for this, is "Make a new timescale without leap seconds, and leave leap seconds in the UTC timescale". This does not fly because a lot of systems are legally mandated to use the UTC timescale. Changing all those laws and regulations, just because a single astronomer is very emotionally attached to the name "UTC" is just not going to happen :-) Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
