[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Paul Sheer]

> 

> It's been a while...  Can you remind me why we will need to continue

> to pretend that there are 86400 SI seconds in a day, past the time

> when there are actually 86401 (or more)?

> 


Why is because there is a semi-infinite number of existing
lines of code, right now in use, that calculate the day from
the second and visa-versa using,

   d = t / 86400
   t = d * 86400

they do this for reasons of a) expediency b) interoperability,
and c) conformance to POSIX v3.

-paul