Re: [LEAPSECS] building consensus

From: Mark Calabretta <mcalabre_at_atnf.CSIRO.AU>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:12:16 +1000

On Mon 2006/06/05 22:04:40 -0400, John Cowan wrote
in a message to: LEAPSECS_at_ROM.USNO.NAVY.MIL

>All your points are correct, but it doesn't change the fact that
>there was no 1845-12-31 in Manila, any more than there was a
>second labeled 2006-04-02T00:02:30 in New York.

There were two such, one labelled EST and the other EDT, neither were
"official" but either could still be used without ambiguity. At the
other end of the season there will be two and both will be official.
C.f. email from me dated 2006/01/13 on this subject.

Mark Calabretta
Received on Tue Jun 13 2006 - 17:12:47 PDT