[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Ian Batten]

On 21 Feb 2011, at 19:14, Tony Finch wrote:


> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Greg Hennessy wrote:

> 

>> Lets also take a show of hands, would abolishing leap years make timekeeping

>> more or less complex?

> 

> More! It took three and a half centuries to adopt the Gregorian correction...

> Imagine having to deal with a tz database for calendars...


But the ITU proposal is akin to abolishing leap years and pretending that there is no gregorian correction...

ian