In message <[email protected]>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes: >On 30 Dec 2008 at 12:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> The most important document in this respect is POSIX btw. > >That's a kind of geek-centrism on your part to elevate a computer >technical standard over all the millennia of legislation and cultural >practices regarding timekeeping... I'm pretty geeky myself, but I >still find it to be putting the cart before the horse.
Yes, it is geekcentric view, and that is because it is the geeks who have the trouble with the leap seconds, everybody else just ignores them. You upset the smooth running of the intertubes at your own peril... 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
