Steve Allen scripsit:
> > > Who needs to know about a leap second more than half a year in advance
> > > but has no access to a time signal broadcasting service (the better ones
> > > of which all carry leap second announcement information today)?
> >
> > Any isolated system that it isn't practical to upgrade every six months.
>
> Please explain why this requirement is not confounded every time your
> legislature decides to mess with the start and stop of summer time
> (with a year's notice because of the olympics, or with a week's notice
> because the war effort is going badly, or whatever).
I was a little too clipped. If you know all the leap seconds, you can
convert a Unix-style timestamp to UTC reliably; if you further know all
the timezone changes, you can convert UTC to LCT reliably.
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Received on Wed Jan 29 2003 - 12:06:16 PST