[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Sun Feb 12 09:22:12 EST 2012


On 11 Feb 2012 at 14:26, Paul J. Ste. Marie wrote:


> On 1/26/2012 4:42 PM, Hal Murray wrote:

> > There are also months, but they are sufficiently non-uniform that nobody

> > expects simple arithmetic conversions to work.

>

> Care to place money on that? A lot of financial stuff assumes a 360 day

> year with 30 day months.


Which shows that ignoring the realities of the date/time system on
Earth to get math to come out easier dates back way before POSIX.


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