[LEAPSECS] Actual versus legal duration makes programming hard

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2015-06-02T06:38:46 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
> UTC is very much a technical standard, written to solve the problem
> of "what time did it happen" in international (and thus political)
> relations.

That degrades the work of IETF and every other organization that
requires two interoperable implementations before they approve a
standard.

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