[LEAPSECS] What's the point?
Rob Seaman
seaman at noao.edu
Wed Feb 9 09:55:02 EST 2011
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Rob Seaman said:
>
>> But you guys continue to reject Steve Allen's zoneinfo option...which represents a system layered on a relatively static timezone DB.
>
> Because it's completely dumb.
> ...
>
> Then what about the "rubber second" period of history.
I reserve the right to disagree. The point is that "dumb" is what the "rubber timezone" folks say - and rubber timezones are an order of magnitude more "dumb" than either rubber seconds or zoneinfo-for-leapseconds.
Rob
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