Subject: Guardian discussion of Multiple time systems

From: "Shannon J. Clark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:57:04 -0500

Just a quick note to the list, something that is occurring in other
standards bodies which this list should be thinking about as well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,985020,00.html

The article above is on the now at least 4 different systems of time that
are in use (mostly differing by the use or not of leap seconds). As the
article discusses, computers "can" navigate through these, but there is a
definite risk of programming errors or bugs.

Shannon

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