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[Roedy Green]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:14:08 -0700, rem642b at yahoo.com (Robert Maas,
see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>- Stick to astronomical time, which is absolutely consistent but
>   which drifts from legal time?

depends what you are measuring. IF you are doing astronomy, your
advice would apply. If you are doing payrolls, you want effectively to
pretend the leap seconds never happened, just as Java does.
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