On Wed 2013-09-11T10:07:27 -0700, Paul Eggert hath writ:
But (as they mention) this definition doesn't match how well-regulated POSIX clocks keep time in practice. There was an earlier proposal to standardize this:
Kuhn M. Coordinated Universal Time with Smoothed Leap Seconds (UTC-SLS) (2006-01) http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kuhn-leapsecond-00
but as far as I know, it has not been adopted in practice.
This is effectively the same as Google's "Leap Smear". (And the smear is an indication that even with the resources of Google, defining and implementing their own corporate worldwide time scale was more feasible than addressing the issues of leap seconds in a heterogeneous ensemble of systems.) -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m