On 2012-01-21 03:20, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > If we are ever going to get a handle on Internet time we need to get rid of > the arbitrary correction factors introduced by leap seconds. Time is and always will be an arbitrary measurement scheme, and the only thing that makes sense for the Internet is to use the same arbitrary scheme as everybody else. We just have to suck up the resulting inconveniences, as GPS has to. It would be unthinkable to go it alone. Alternatively we could revert to the Julian (365.25 day) calendar, which was considerably more convenient for programmers, or perhaps to one of the old Iranian (360 day) calendars, which are convenient in some ways but do require occasional leap months. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf