M. Warner Losh scripsit:
> Well, if you count the variable radix notation as being 'continuous'
> then maybe you are right. However, you never know when the radix is
> variable, hence the assertion on many people's part that UTC is
> discontinuous.
Indeed, one could say that *every* minute that does not contain
a 61st second represents a discontinuity.
However, it's clear that UTC does not contain the sort of jumps
that LCT does, where a single broken-down time may represent
two different UTC seconds.
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Received on Sun Dec 31 2006 - 01:49:25 PST