[LEAPSECS] operational time -- What's in a name?

Greg Hennessy greg.hennessy at cox.net
Fri Mar 28 09:01:01 EDT 2008




> although naive math is, well, naive, more code exists that assumes,

> for example, that midnight it time_t % 86400 == 0 than you want to

> believe. Changing this is really bad karma.


The current situation is that code like your example does not accurately
reflect reality. I advocate changing the code. You advocate changing reality.


> Fuck the telescopes software. it is order of magnitudes less common

> than anything else as to be irrelevant than things like ntp.


Attitudes like fuck certain people's software don't seem useful to me.


> Leap seconds are evil and must die.


That is an opinion that not everyone shares.



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