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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <66AC0D95-1918-4A4F-906D-2A4F23F394C9 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>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?


I don't know about "trust", but "live with" ?  Yes, unfortunately.

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