On 2015-05-19 08:10, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
A key point I've been making all along is that there needs to be an internationally agreed standard for how to do the smoothing. In Java I recommended UTC-SLS simply because it was at least a written up approach. (My preference is for a linear change because there is less chance of implementors getting it wrong).
What for? I consider all these schemes just as internal representations of UTC time stamps, chosen according to special needs and constraints. We would not have so many different internal representations if there was no need for them. For data interchange and external storage, We have the standardized and well-understood notation of ISO 8601 for time stamps with leap seconds, such as 2015-06-30T23:59:60.2Z. Every internal representation must be convertible to and from that standard. In my opinion, no other standard is needed. Michael Deckers. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
