[LEAPSECS] leap minute or hour

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Nov 15 05:27:21 EST 2022


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Clive D.W. Feather writes:

> Stick with what people are used to, which is (mostly) shifts of an hour.

Yeah, well...

That's the disadvantage of handling it at the political level:

There is no discernible upper limit to how stupid politicians can be about timezones.

Apart from 15 minute and 30 minute deltas, there is a clear tendency to make changes with far too short notice.

The good news is that stupid timezone decisions can only hurt the
geographical area controlled by the politicians, so there is a
feedback-mechanism in place.

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