[LEAPSECS] operational time -- What's in a name?

[Rob Seaman]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> But our problems with POSIX may pale soon, when the politically

> ram-rodded, 7000 pages long OOXML standard for "office and business

> documents gets ratified by ISO as a "rubberstamp" standard.

>

> As far as I know that standard gets none of leap years, timezones

> much less leap seconds right.


And we're to trust the international standards process to define the  
fundamental architecture of timekeeping?