[LEAPSECS] Leap Seconds schedule prior to 1972

Brooks Harris brooks at edlmax.com
Wed Apr 27 18:51:28 EDT 2016



On 2016-04-27 05:11 PM, John Sauter wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 15:13 -0400, Brooks Harris wrote:
>>   
>>   I understand. But its always seemed to me those old formats should
>> be obsolesced, that ISO 8601 presented an attractive alternative,
>> that the YMDhms order made such good sense. Of course formats must
>> remain reverse compatible, so they've proably had to stick with what
>> they'd done. But in your case the whole timescale is new (wait, maybe
>> its old? :-) ) so its an opportunity to suggest adopting a more
>> sensible and modern lexicon.
>> -Brooks
>>
> Since the Gregorian dates appear only as comments they could be changed
> easily.  Perhaps we should show both forms.  What do other people on
> this list think should be done?
>      John Sauter (John_Sauter at systemeyescomputerstore.com)
Not two! That just begs more confusion. My complaint that 8601 style is 
not more widely adopted should not slow down your proposal - its a minor 
point of style.
-B
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