Completely agree with Brooke and Mike S. This is not the first time that software developers have dropped the ball and later complained that the problem is too difficult.
In my experience, nobody assigned time or resources to the problem. What better group than this to come up with a definitive way to handle leap seconds if UTC must be used. How did I use my leap second? I never noticed it - and that's the way human scale time should be. Is there any way to do forensic investigations of software that failed? Can developers be convinced that investigation can be done without casting blame on anyone? This means keeping the media out of it. Else, we are condemned to repeat history, in the Santayanan sense. Bill Hawkins - who would like to declare independence of time, but his body won't let him. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.