[LEAPSECS] comp.risks post in need of response

[Rob Seaman]

Anybody want to volunteer to take a wack at setting the nice folks at  
the Risks Digest straight regarding a timekeeping issue?

	http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.47.html#subj12

I'm sure someone from any of our various philosophical encampments  
would do a fine job of telling them why "NominalDiffTime" is a silly  
idea.  If only the claim were true, however:

	"If you don't care about leap seconds, use UTCTime and  
NominalDiffTime for your clock calculations, and you'll be fine."

Certainly nobody who does need to recover accurate UT1 from civil time  
is going to trust this library.

Rob Seaman
NOAO