Roger Stapleton scripsit: > Yesterday morning over a cup of coffee I floated the question of > leapseconds and their abolition passed a couple of friends in the > University IT Services dept. One quickly decided that leapseconds were > the obvious solution, then realised we have them, and wondered what the > problem was.
The problem is that they are not announced much in advance, and one needs to keep a list of them back to 1972 which grows quadratically in size. > Sorry nothing posative in this - but then users of clock-on-the-wall time > are always going to be a problem. We have met the enemy and he is us, in fact. We are all users of civil time first and foremost. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com ccil.org/~cowan Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos --Lithuanian proverb Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem --Latin version thereof Deity donated dentition; deity'll donate doughnuts --English version by Muke Tever God gave gums; God'll give granary --Version by Mat McVeagh
