-------- In message <d0f8e82e.12357%[email protected]>, Kevin Birth writes:
>That said, this is a problem with the policy of implementing the leap >second at the prime meridian at midnight UTC, not a problem with the leap >second itself. That's a theoretically correct observation, but given that the planet is round and mostly populated I have a hard time seeing any other longitude offering significant relief from this problem. If one takes a strictly democratic view on this, China gets to veto quite a wide slab of longitudes, given that they have the timezone with most people in it. -- 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] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
