Suffered a disk crash and lost my response to this. Don't have the heart to recreate it in detail. You all know the sorts of things I would say, anyway. Might make an amusing parlor game to write your own replies in my - ahem - "style" :-)
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
neither "local time" nor "civil time" is a continous variable
In summary: may come as news to the ITU, IERS and USNO. Plan to take a week or two away from leap seconds, so if there are going to be any reports attempting to attribute technological misbehavior to the recent leap second (and further, to characterize marginal kerfuffles as dire portents of doom), this might be a good time to release them :-) Rob
