In message <[email protected]>, Step hen Colebourne writes:
>Poul, this is not true for JSR-310. A year is 365-366 days long. A day >is a fundamental unit. Thus we know exactly how long each are. I'm not talking about JSR-310, I'm talking reality. Thanks to leap-seconds we do not know how long (certain) minutes are, until Daniel tells us. By extension it follows that we do not know how long the hours, days, years, decades, centuries & millenia which ocntains one of these minutes are. "UTC is unpredictable" is the core of the problem, and a problem that must be solved, either by extending the predictability horizon from six months to at least 10 years, or by making UTC predictable. -- 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
