[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <alpine.LSU.2.00.0901071929250.7820 at hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony Fi
nch writes:

>On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Rob Seaman wrote:

>>

>> On the other hand, permitting a long delay between events - or rather,

>> between scheduling opportunities for events - risks losing the corporate

>> knowledge to handle the events properly.

>

>The good thing about timezones is the code to implement them and alter

>them is exercised all the time.


...and that politicians who are too enthusiatically mucking about with them,
will face the consequences, by the (voting) hands of the affected electorate.

Poul-Henning

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