In message <E1EzLbb-0005o4-00_at_mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>, Markus Kuhn writes:
>A new Internet-Draft with implementation guidelines on how to handle UTC
>leap seconds in Internet protocols was posted today on the IETF web
>site:
>
> "Coordinated Universal Time with Smoothed Leap Seconds (UTC-SLS)",
> Markus Kuhn, 18-Jan-06. (36752 bytes)
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kuhn-leapsecond-00.txt
The serious timekeeping people gave up on rubberseconds in 1972 and
I will object with all that I can muster against reinventing them
to paste over a problem that has a multitude of correct solutions.
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Received on Thu Jan 19 2006 - 01:56:36 PST