[LEAPSECS] Do lawyers care (know) about leap seconds?

[Hal Murray]

> So you are saying that the UTC standard is so broken that you have to invent
> your own, which is not standardized by any standards body[*], to get around
> it? UTC is the required time base for business and has some odd quirks which
> mean that to comply with it you have to be an expert on the esoteric quirks
> of UTC, like the 61 second minute. Saying that it has to be sanitized before
> feeding it to the end user says implies that the standard isn?t really a
> standard and you have to ?fake it? by some weird means to keep user?s happy.

How many contracts worry about seconds?

I think it's common for contracts to start one minute before or after 
midnight to avoid an English language ambiguity.  Things like "midnight 
Monday" might be the midnight at the start of Monday or the midnight at the 
end of Monday so contracts usually use 00:01 or 23:59.  A bit of googling 
found a web page describing that, but I don't know what they teach in law 
schools.

Do other languages have the same problem?  How many languages have a simple 
and unambigious way to say "midnight at the end of xxx"?


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