[LEAPSECS] No leapseconds on trains

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Nov 17 10:10:45 EST 2011


In message <4EC51A73.6664.2A84F4E8 at dan.tobias.name>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes:

>On 17 Nov 2011 at 11:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:



>It seems rather bizarre that they'd have to *change* a standard in

>order to *keep on following* the standard that's been in effect since

>1972, namely the use of leap seconds.


Well, same situation as UNIX, Windows and pretty much any other
operating system in the world.

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