[LEAPSECS] final report of the UK leap seconds dialog

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2015-02-05T18:51:20 -0500, Brooks Harris hath writ:
> Many aspects of "local time" or "civil time" are left to "common
> practice" which is not good enough to expect uniform inter-operable
> implementations.

>  doesn't address the elephant in the
> room - local time.

As a horror story example from today, see the IANA tz mail list
discussion trying to decipher the various announcments (official and
un) about how Quintana Roo in Mexico will be setting its clocks in
April.

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-February/022005.html

It is all too common to find situations where it is difficult to
ascertain who has authority, over what geographic region, and what
exactly they are trying to say.  Often the change only becomes clear
scant days in advance.  That is not enough time for the tz community
to publish the change, for operating system vendors to incorporate the
change, and for users of computers and cell phones to apply the patch.

By comparison, leap second announcements are crystal clear.

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