[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Mark Calabretta wrote:

>

> Leaping timezones would be tenable if they all leapt at the same

> time.  However, I think we agree that that won't happen.


They leap about all the time at arbitrary times, so I wonder why you
think that isn't tenable.


> Currently the main chaotic element of timezones is concerned with

> the start and end date of DST.  The chaos is restricted to two

> periods, sometime in autumn and spring, and it only amounts to one

> hour to and fro.


No, the main chaotic element is that the rules keep changing.

Tony.
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