[LEAPSECS] leap second roundup 2017

[Tony Finch]

Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
> If you magically got all the paperwork changed, you would see a
> repeat of the GMT fiasco, where UTC is still called "GMT" 50 years
> later...

GMT has had many definitions over its lifetime, including a 12h step, so
I'm not convinced that polysemy is a world-ending disaster.

Tony.
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