[LEAPSECS] About the publics time (in-)competence

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Aug 13 06:52:31 EDT 2010



The argument that people "should just do it right" with respect to
leap-seconds, is utterly dismantled by incompetence like this:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/scavenger/detail?entry_id=69967

When average people cannot even get one hour adjustments right, what
are the chances they will get 1 second adjustments right ?

Poul-Henning

PS: Please don't restart the DST flamefest, that is an entirely
different subject and not relevant.

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