[LEAPSECS] leap smear

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <8E441634-AEE3-4760-8EB0-1FBB8BB74D8F at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>> The fundamental problem is that a vast majority of the worlds

>> software is written as if leap seconds simply do not exist.

>

>This may or may not be a boundary condition.  The fundamental

>system engineering problem is that there are two different types

>of time, two kinds of clock.


You mean "There is time, and there is Earth Orientation."

The latter is not a time.


>Again and again and again - you are simply assuming that there are

>no negative affects from redefining UTC.


Again, and again and again you claim that there are, but you have
provided just as many examples, and there are hides of bigfoot in
the Smithsonian.

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