[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Adi Stav wrote:

>

> Another suggestion in the same vain: standardize all the time zones of

> the world to two specific dates for starting and ending DST (if they use

> it). Add leap seconds at one of those dates only.


That would require the period of DST to be exactly half the year, so that
the north and south get the same amount of it. However DST is usually
applied for more than half the year.

Tony.
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