[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Steve Allen wrote:

>

> The point of my suggestion for using zoneinfo to propagate the leap

> seconds is that both NTP and POSIX would de facto, silently, and

> inconsequentially change to using TI rather than UTC if the name of

> the internationally approved time scale changed to that.  The systems

> would keep working just fine -- even better if they do not like leaps.


The status quo is that they will de facto, silently, and inconsequentially
change to using TI rather than UTC if the time scale changes.

Tony.
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