On Wed, June 29, 2011 14:27, Paul Koning wrote:
"Remove leap seconds from UTC" is clearly absurd, and I'm baffled that ACM would lend its good name to such a notion. UTC is defined as atomic time plus leap seconds, for good and sufficient reasons. And as was pointed out, TAI already exists for those who want atomic time plain, without leap seconds.
This proposal has been around for a few years, and it's coming up for a vote in the next little while: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1616231/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Proposal_to_abolish_leap_seconds There's a listserv on the topic: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs If you feel strongly one way or the other I'm not quite sure what your options are for making your opinion heard.
I wonder if this requests amounts to "Posix should be extended to provide an interface to TAI". If so, that certainly makes sense. Is that something tzdata can do, or does it have to be done in some other layer?
Nothing specific. I was just reminded of the issue via the Slashdot story, and was wondering what options were available for those people that want/need to have their systems ignore leap seconds (just like people who want OSes not have to deal with DST can do a TZ=UTC).