[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Paul Sheer]

> Tony Finch wrote:

> > Furthermore using timezones to keep civil time in sync with

> > the sun leads to simpler software and it will work for over

> > ten thousand years.

> 

> No.  Breaking timezones on top of breaking UTC with the

> apparent motivation of allowing TAI to be "suppressed" is

> bad on top of bad on top of bad.

> 


You two,

Have you looked at the Olson source?

If anyone is to judge how "simple" it is to fiddle with timezones,
they should first be thoroughly familiar with this C code.

In any case, whatever solution ye'all come up with should not
merely be In Principle. It should come as a patch on some real code.

There is only one way to settle this debate:

"CODE OFF!!!"

I think what you will find is that there is no technical difference
between moving leap seconds into TZ, and eliminating leap seconds and
adjusting TZ.

Perhaps it's just a matter of granularity.

*shrug*

"The power of the Jedi-coder flows from the SOURCE."

-paul