[LEAPSECS] (no subject)

[Peter Vince]

>> Please explain why changing the name of the broadcast time scale

>> to TI and putting UTC and the leap seconds into zoneinfo does

>> not satisfy all requirements of the need for uniform time scale.

>

>You keep asking this question and we keep explaining that it breaks

>too much software.

>

>Tony.


Tony,

I am trying to clarify in my mind a couple of proposals, one of which is having no more leap-seconds in the civil (broadcast) 
time scale.  I'm sorry, I must have missed your messages where you said that a lot of software would fail in that scenario - 
could you briefly clarify please?

Peter