[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Tony Finch]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> On the other hand, permitting a long delay between events - or rather,

> between scheduling opportunities for events - risks losing the corporate

> knowledge to handle the events properly.


The good thing about timezones is the code to implement them and alter
them is exercised all the time.


> One great benefit of leap seconds is that there is a simple mechanism for

> introducing them into the flow of time marks.


So simple it usually doesn't work!


> There clearly is resistance to admitting that there are two different

> underlying concepts of civil timekeeping that must both be honored.

> Embracing this will be the quickest way to reach a new equilibrium.


Just treat UT as another timezone offset from TI, alongside all the other
earth-oriented timezones.

Tony.
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