In message <[email protected]>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes : >On 23 Dec 2008 at 8:43, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> The rest of us have no trouble with a tolerance of up to (at least) >> one hour, because that's what is already the reality for 99.9..% >> of the population. > >And then your distant descendants will throw a huge fit about the >possibility of a leap hour being imposed, which would be much more >noticeably disruptive than leap seconds, and will indefinitely block >such a thing, until some day noon comes in the middle of the night.
They would probably be about as upset, as I am that somebody ceeded Skåne to Sweden about as long time ago. -- 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.
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