Poul-Henning Kamp wrote on 2005-01-23 09:00 UTC:
any leap
hours that prevented this would, if ever implemented, be even more
traumatic than leap seconds are now.
they already happen here twice a year, and by now even
Microsoft has gotten it right.
OBJECTION, your Time Lords!
UTC currently
Markus Kuhn scripsit:
UTC currently certainly has *no* two 1-h leaps every year.
There seems to be persistent confusion on what is meant by the term
leap hour. I understand it as a secular change to the various LCT offsets,
made either all at once (on 1 Jan 2600, say) or on an ad-lib basis.
On Thu 2005-01-20T14:59:18 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
Leap seconds are a perfectly workable mechanism. Systems
that don't need time-of-day should use TAI. Systems that do need
time-of-day often benefit from the 0.9s approximation to UT1 that UTC
currently provides. Let's stop pretending
