I have no objection to the occasional one-second shutdowns that the use of leap seconds requires, provided of course that z/OS manages them itself.
In the two international meetings on this topic that I have attended, the hidden objection to the use of leap seconds turned out to be that they notionally complicate calendrical computations, but they do so only if these computations are naif. I was able to dissipate these anxieties in those two small groups by explaining GLB-seeking binary search to them, but they are still widespread. What is not perhaps fully understood is that the abolition of leap seconds would entail using much larger, less tractable corrections at much longer intervals. . John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
