In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>The whole point of DST is an adjustment from a norm. Now you are making even less sense than usual. The whole point of DST is not "adjustment from a norm", that would be rulemaking for rulemakings sake. The "whole point of DST" are some vague economical and dubious quality-of-life arguments, and it has absolutely nothing to do with leap seconds, except to show that A) Changes to civil time are not only feasible but also relatively painless, provided computers are programmed to deal correctly with it. B) Earth Orientation is not important at sub-half-hour precision. -- 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
