[LEAPSECS] Leap second mess at NASA

[Steve Allen]

On 2011 Jun 2, at 07:52, Tony Finch wrote:

> It's called the "proleptic Gregorian calendar".


That is irrelevant to any NASA mission, for no data were
collected at that time, but even if they were the contemporary
records did not use it.  So they must be painstakingly converted
from whatever was used, and that is the problem that CDF maintainers
face.
                                                                                
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