In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Calabretta writes: >On Tue 2005/08/30 19:46:51 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote >in a message to: LEAPSECS@ROM.USNO.NAVY.MIL > >>keep "the clock" as people see it on their wrist [1] in sufficient >>sync with the light of day through minor acts of timezone adjustments. > >If such a system were to be adopted, then in future, in order to >determine a historical time, the full record of timezone changes would >be needed.
How is this different than today ? How is it different from having to keep a total history of leapseconds ? -- 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.
