[LEAPSECS] An example

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <C2ECBB7B-7810-448C-9538-E23F3B378B5D at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>1) There is no pressing need to act now rather than 20 or 50 or

> 500 years from now.


There very much is: With each passing day, the probability that the next
leap second will kill somebody because of sloppy engineering increases
by a possibly non-trivial amount.


>2) Consensus has not been reached on the nature of the problem,

> let alone the solution(s) appropriate to the problem.


You are correct in the sense that there is not _unanimous_ consent,
but there is certainly a consensus that TF.460 and POSIX are in
direct conflict with each other, and that they will have to be
aligned to eachother somehow.

Poul-Henning

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