[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Magnus Danielson]

Poul-Henning Kamp skrev:

> In message <421FB837-F23F-4A16-B6F4-F26D1C58C6FA at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

> 

>> It seems very unlikely that leap day will move from February.  People  

>> are fond of February.  Also, a leap day at the end of December would  

>> be December 32nd :-)

> 

> Which would break incredibly badly thought out filsystem formats

> like FAT which encodes the day-of-month in five bits.


Among many other systems... this would make leap second akes feel like a 
very little itch. Evil man, evil.

Cheers,
Magnus