[LEAPSECS] The relation between calendars and leap seconds.

[Tony Finch]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> Are people really convinced by the argument that badly implemented systems

> should determine policy?


I'm arguing about deployment pragmatics. Note that the systems aren't
badly implemented, they are just following specs based on UT sans leap
seconds.

If you simply change broadcast time signals to be TI instead of UTC then
the POSIX spec and the NTP spec and ... will no longer describe reality.
I don't think this kind of incompatible change is good sysems engineering.

Tony.
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