[LEAPSECS] Time is hard...

[blb8 at po.cwru.edu]

> From: Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>

> 

> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 

> > Happy new year and leap-second.

> >

> > Further evidence that average programmers should not be let near  

> > timekeeping:

> >

> > http://gizmodo.com/5121822/official-fix-for-the-zune-30-fail

> 

> ...

> 

> What precisely is an "average" programmer, anyway?


One that tests a ten-line code chunk before releasing it, and realizes that corner cases are important.  Quite frankly, I'd say that was a "beginning" programmer.



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