[LEAPSECS] Bloomberg announced its smear

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Sep 26 00:53:29 EDT 2016


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In message <1474862124.16870.7.camel at systemeyescomputerstore.com>, John Sauter writes:

>Google says in the blog that they did the smearing to avoid the need to
>review all of their time-sensitive code.  Those of us who love leap
>seconds need to spend the next 10 years doing that code review, and the
>necessary testing and bug fixing to get everything working in the
>presence of leap seconds.
>
>We also need to fix operating systems and subroutine libraries so that
>when application programmers, who don't care about leap seconds, write
>their code it will "just work".

Let us know when you are done:

	http://bgr.com/2015/09/18/size-of-google-source-code-lines/

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