[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Greg Hennessy]

On 01/12/2014 05:14 PM, Joseph Gwinn wrote:


>>

>> It sounds like you are rewriting history.

>

> No, he isn't.  In the UNIX before POSIX, it was GMT.  When the first

> POSIX standard was developed, GMT had been deprecated in favor of UTC,

> so POSIX changed to UTC.


POSIX changed to calling something without leapseconds by a name
that means leap seconds.

POSIX started calling a tail a leg, and lots of people are trying
to argue that calling the tail a leg makes it a leg.

I continue to disagree.

It is now 2014. The next time the 'drop the leap seconds' will
face a vote is sometime in 2015. The current status
is that leap seconds exist, no matter how pesky some people
find them. If the votes do not exist to change the status
the quo will continue. Does anyone want to offer an estimate
of when a method of dealing with leap seconds might
be standardized?