In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:

>Nobody other than geeks has a problem with leap seconds.  Geeks are  
>competent to deal with what residual problems there may be.  Therefore  
>leap seconds must die.

We in the "realitybased community" know this to be not true.

>Rather than getting tangled into logical pretzels, why don't we simply  
>seek a better solution than the ITU's slipshod proposal?

Because ITU's proposal is fine for our needs, only too bad the implementation
will be delayed a decade relative to the initial proposal.

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