[LEAPSECS] h2g2

[p at 2038bug.com]

> 

> on the SAME time.  Nobody cares here that solar time and civil time

> are 43 minutes off. 


*I* care 

but I'm not important - I'm just one person 

many people might care and many people are not getting to make
the decision because the decision is being made for them. 

further, it's not a decision we can *ever* go back on once it is
made because reversing back to solar to time would be politically
far too difficult to get collaboration on. 

therefore it is a decision that must be made very very carefully. 

that some NASA/ITU/whoever people find leap seconds "inconvenient"
for programmers is NOT sufficient reason to ever have started
pursuing this agenda. 



> 

> leap hour will ever happen, but I won't be around to see it one way or

> another. 

> 


so really, your argument is to try convince people to only consider
eventualities that occur within the space of their lifetime? 

darwin takes care of this attitude - it's sort of guaranteed 

 -paul