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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:19:59 EDT."
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Date: Tue,  2 Sep 2014 16:29:29 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] silly question
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:19:59 EDT erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > I was mistaken.  Turns out neither do Unix systems handle
> > leapseconds. Now if only ITU punts on leapseconds in 2015, we
> > can let some future generation worry about leap minutes or
> > hours! Sorry for the noise.
>
> or we can give up on noon being a particular solar time.  this would
> free us from timezones, dst and other complications.  just kidding ... maybe.

The wikipedia entry on leap second is quite instructive.