In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Davies writes:
>Also, Markus wasn't proposing UTS as a civil timescale but just >for use within computer systems, etc. What a weird concept... Why not go the full distance and define a timescale for each particular kind of time-piece: Wrist Watch time Wall clock time Grandfather clock time Tower clock time Television time Embedded system time Appliance time Router time PC time Windows server time Commercial UNIX time Free UNIX time Main-frame time and give each of them their own unique way of coping with leapseconds ? Ohh wait... That's what it looks like today already isn't it ? :-( -- 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.