[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2012-01-23T12:40:20 -0500, Keith Winstein hath writ:

> Steve Allen has opted for my #2 ("Correctly account for past leap

> seconds, and ignore yet-to-be-disseminated future leap seconds when

> converting EST/EDT/UTC-specified moments into a timestamp").


I assert that this is the same problem as ignoring yet-to-be-announced
changes in the zoneinfo files.  The whims of the rotating earth bear
many resemblances to the whims of senators/presidentes/bureaucrats.
(The latter category cannot be suppressed by the ITU-R.)

I also assert that this problem is being usefully addressed by the TC
TIMEZONE folks as they followup their work on creating RFCs 5545,
5546, and the related protocols.  I foresee that they will achieve a
working implementation for time zones.

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