On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Rob Seaman wrote:
>
> Folks keep fretting here about retrieving lists of leap seconds
> autonomously, although no specific use case is proffered about why
> one needs to use UTC to measure intervals across various and sundry
> leap second events.
You need to do so in order to implement an accurate clock, since the clock
produces interval time and you need a way to convert its output to time of
day.
> M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > Daylight savings time and time zones prove that society at large has a
> > very high tolerance for variations between the mean solar time at an
> > arbitrary location, maybe hundreds of miles away, and the local time.
>
> This is a static offset.
No, it is subject to arbitrary political variations.
Tony.
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