[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jul 2 05:54:20 UTC 2012


In message <4FF0F373.1020504 at pacific.net>, Brooke Clarke writes:

>Would you rather have these minor problems or have a much bigger
>one when they make a larger correction?

But isn't that exactly why it is a problem ?

News coverage of leapseconds are mostly along the lines of "What
can you do with an extra second ?" as filler material on page 7
Whereas coverage of DST changes is "REMEMBER TO SET YOUR CLOCKS!"
on the frontpage.



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