[LEAPSECS] max acceptable rate of TZ fudge/IDL creep

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jan 6 16:59:07 EST 2012


In message <alpine.LRH.2.00.1201061249001.11023 at nadreck.tuc.noao.edu>, Richard
Clark writes:


>I anticipate chaos.


Which is always a sound attitude when democracy is involved.

However, 9 times out of 10 chaos fails to materialize, because people
tend to value a functioning society over the much predicted alternative.

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