[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Warner Losh wrote:

> On 02/08/2011 14:39, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> > C) As pointed out on numerous occasions in the past, these kaleidoscopic

> > timezones would accelerate quadratically just like leap seconds.

>

> This problem isn't solved by this method either.  True.


Except that timezone adjustments continue to work much further into the
future than leap seconds.

Tony.
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