[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Rob Seaman]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:


> Rob Seaman said:

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>> But you guys continue to reject Steve Allen's zoneinfo option...which represents a system layered on a relatively static timezone DB.

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> Because it's completely dumb.

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> Then what about the "rubber second" period of history.


I reserve the right to disagree.  The point is that "dumb" is what the "rubber timezone" folks say - and rubber timezones are an order of magnitude more "dumb" than either rubber seconds or zoneinfo-for-leapseconds.

Rob