[LEAPSECS] internet drafts about zoneinfo

[Tony Finch]

On 4 Mar 2011, at 23:34, Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:


> So, if the ITU voted in a time scale with 86413 SI-seconds per day or a two-ticks-forward-one-tock-back timekeeping scheme or a Doctor-Who-on-psychodelics or a T. H. White Merlin-living-backwards (Benjamin Button for those attuned more to Hollywood) time scale - well, then POSIX would just merrily have to adapt and learn to like it?


If the ITU did anything that stupid then everyone would stop listening to them and find another organization to specify time standards. POSIX will follow the crowd.

Tony.
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