[LEAPSECS] Alanna Mitchell in NYT

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Joseph Gwinn writes:

> And the likelihood is that software written (at great expense) to 
> prepare for what will be in 30 years from now will be a dead loss, 
> outmaneuvered by technological and scientific progress.

I would never attempt that.

My point is more that you get a lot of mileage out of the
KISS principle when it comes to designing standards and APIs.

And

	"86400 seconds per day"

is a lot more KISS than

	"86400±1 seconds per day"

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