Steve Allen scripsit: > > > Who needs to know about a leap second more than half a year in advance > > > but has no access to a time signal broadcasting service (the better ones > > > of which all carry leap second announcement information today)? > > > > Any isolated system that it isn't practical to upgrade every six months. > > Please explain why this requirement is not confounded every time your > legislature decides to mess with the start and stop of summer time > (with a year's notice because of the olympics, or with a week's notice > because the war effort is going badly, or whatever).
I was a little too clipped. If you know all the leap seconds, you can convert a Unix-style timestamp to UTC reliably; if you further know all the timezone changes, you can convert UTC to LCT reliably. -- A rabbi whose congregation doesn't want John Cowan to drive him out of town isn't a rabbi, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and a rabbi who lets them do it [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't a man. --Jewish saying http://www.reutershealth.com
