Re: OT: Re: Less is more

[Paul Smith <paullocal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:14 04/05/2004, Brett Watson wrote:
> > Why not? Sounds eminently sensible to me. Realistically, would anyone care
> > about leap seconds when sending email?
>
> If you're going to insist on "no leap second dates", you may as well do a
> conversion from UTC to UT1 at the outset (converting any instance of 60
> seconds back down to 59), since this gives you 0.9 second accuracy anyhow.
> Why the on-going enthusiasm for half-baked UTC implementations, folks? Do it
> right or do something else, I say.

True - OK, UT1 it is then..

> If nobody cares for leap seconds, then perhaps nobody cares for seconds at 
> all
> in this instance. That being so, we can declare the time structure without
> seconds, suggesting that it should be accurate to plus or minus a minute.
> This renders the UTC versus UT1 debate irrelevant: they both meet these
> criteria.

Interesting idea. Seconds are really only useful if all MUAs/MTAs are 
synchronised. Given that, in real life, they won't, a resolution of minutes 
might well be adequate.


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