In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes: >Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>I reserve the right to disagree. The point is that "dumb" is what >the "rubber timezone" folks say - and rubber timezones are an order >of magnitude more "dumb" than either rubber seconds or >zoneinfo-for-leapseconds. Says who ? Rubber seconds made even interval measurement a tricky proposition, globally. Leaving civil time in the hands of governments is not only non-optional, it also limits any damage that can be done geographically. -- 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
