[LEAPSECS] Leap smear

[Steve Allen]

On 2011 Sep 20, at 04:15, Ian Batten wrote:


> So why aren't all those exotic investigations necessary when

> countries change timezones, which happens with monotonous regularity? 


It's a matter of representation.  In that case the offset is
1) obvious to any human and customary already for a century
2) completely handled by the tz folks in the zoninfo code and database

Arbitary offsets between civil time and the underlying representation                                                                                
are a solved problem.  Furthermore, Arthur David Olson has managed
the sociology of creating a civil time community which is itself
civil.  I think we could learn several things from them.

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