[LEAPSECS] What's the point?
Paul Sheer
p at 2038bug.com
Mon Feb 14 19:07:59 EST 2011
> Tony Finch wrote:
> > Furthermore using timezones to keep civil time in sync with
> > the sun leads to simpler software and it will work for over
> > ten thousand years.
>
> No. Breaking timezones on top of breaking UTC with the
> apparent motivation of allowing TAI to be "suppressed" is
> bad on top of bad on top of bad.
>
You two,
Have you looked at the Olson source?
If anyone is to judge how "simple" it is to fiddle with timezones,
they should first be thoroughly familiar with this C code.
In any case, whatever solution ye'all come up with should not
merely be In Principle. It should come as a patch on some real code.
There is only one way to settle this debate:
"CODE OFF!!!"
I think what you will find is that there is no technical difference
between moving leap seconds into TZ, and eliminating leap seconds and
adjusting TZ.
Perhaps it's just a matter of granularity.
*shrug*
"The power of the Jedi-coder flows from the SOURCE."
-paul
More information about the LEAPSECS
mailing list