[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 83, Issue 5

[Warner Losh]

On Sep 15, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Finkleman, Dave wrote:

> Wouldn't the problem go away if time stamps were just in UTC?   Then other time zones involved in transactions would not ave to convert either.   I will speak with the Emperor.


The problem isn't timezone conversion. The problem is the non-uniform radix that's present in UTC. Most systems aren't able to cope with that, which results in problems of varying degrees of severity that have been documented here, in Risks, and elsewhere.

Warner