[LEAPSECS] Standards of time zones -Brooks Harris

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20140110055749.B07C1406063 at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Mu
rray writes:

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>(from a day or two ago...)

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>Brooks Harris <brooks at edlmax.com> said:

>> So I ask your opinion(s) - Do you think there's a need for a document  like

>> I've described? What standards body do you think would be receptive  to the

>> idea? Or is it a fool's errand? 

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>If I was going to try to fix that, I think I would start by talking to the OS 

>and POSIX people.  I don't know if they would be receptive.  Even if they 

>were, it might still be a dead end, but then I would (might?) learn something.


You mean these people ?
	http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/metaphor-for-the-day.html

And yes, those are "my crowd" and Charlie Stross is spot on about them.

So, yeah, good luck with that...


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