[LEAPSECS] Bloomberg announced its smear

[Brooks Harris]

Hi Gerry,
On 2016-09-25 07:58 AM, GERRY ASHTON wrote:
>
> The Microsoft Azure approach of moving the leap second to local 
> midnight has been discussed.
>
I suppose you mean at LEAPSECS? If so I've missed that and be interested 
in the reference. I'd be interested in any other discussions of it as well.

-Brooks
>
> I don't know enough about Azure to say if it is acceptable in that 
> context, but as a general approach, I object to midnight. National 
> authorities in the US and Canada have decided the hour shift for 
> daylight saving time should occur in the very early morning, but not 
> at midnight; though I don't know the motivations for this choice, it's 
> a good choice. Many deadlines occur at local midnight, and adherence 
> to those deadlines is more and more often decided by computer 
> timestamps. Thus, any time adjustments should not occur at local 
> midnight. (Of course, this objection applies to places where UTC 
> midnight is local midnight.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> LEAPSECS mailing list
> LEAPSECS at leapsecond.com
> https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/leapsecs/attachments/20160925/348da6b6/attachment.html>