In message <E1EAIGc-0004Wk-00_at_grus.atnf.CSIRO.AU>, Mark Calabretta writes:
>On Tue 2005/08/30 19:46:51 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote
>in a message to: LEAPSECS_at_ROM.USNO.NAVY.MIL
>
>>keep "the clock" as people see it on their wrist [1] in sufficient
>>sync with the light of day through minor acts of timezone adjustments.
>
>If such a system were to be adopted, then in future, in order to
>determine a historical time, the full record of timezone changes would
>be needed.
How is this different than today ?
How is it different from having to keep a total history of leapseconds ?
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Received on Tue Aug 30 2005 - 22:30:13 PDT