Brian, On Jan 20, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > 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. +1 > > 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. Or a lunar calendar. Some years, it would be nice to have an extra month :-) Bob _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf