[LEAPSECS] "China move could call time on GMT"

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <33BC948F-C443-469B-AA69-4C18093D5CD6 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>Time-of-day is and will remain an angle.


They are not concerned with time-of-day, they are concerned with UTC.

Time-Of-Day, in most places is

	UTC + politically_chosen_constant(t)

And they are not touching the second part, which is responsible for
aligning TOD with the sun, at all.

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