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Re: Leap second tonight
From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:01:58 +0000
Adrian Chadd wrote:
Wow, how'd I miss that, I wonder? :)
I would recommend lodging a complaint to the relevant authorities. That's sure to help. But seriously. Leap seconds occur every couple of years, either on July 30th and Dec 31. Sometimes both. And sometimes every consecutive year for a couple of years on the run. If your code insists on exactly 60 seconds in all minutes, or 86400 seconds in a hour, your code is wrong. You need to take this into account, because leap seconds are actually pretty common occurrences.
I'm just angry at the jack moves pulled by last minute timezone changes back in Australia, and the massively stupid repercussions seen throughout chunks of IT (incl. network auditing setups I had to poke at the time.) I'll add "handling second == 60" to the list of things I should check for in my code. Thanks. :)
Yeah, last minute declarations are annoying. Like the british government's mad-cap idea to change VAT for the first time in donkey's years from 17.5% to 15% with 7 days warning. Now that's screwed up. Nick
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- Re: Leap second tonight, (continued)
- Re: Leap second tonight Jeff Wasilko (Jan 01)
- Re: Leap second tonight Thomas Habets (Jan 04)
- Re: Leap second tonight Stefan Molnar (Jan 01)
- Re: Leap second tonight Steven Saner (Jan 01)
- Re: Leap second tonight Chris Adams (Jan 01)
- Re: Leap second tonight Eddie (Jan 01)
- RE: Leap second tonight Frank Bulk (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Adrian Chadd (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Nick Hilliard (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Adrian Chadd (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Nick Hilliard (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Leo Vegoda (Jan 05)
- RE: Leap second tonight Buhrmaster, Gary (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Adrian Chadd (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Majdi S. Abbas (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Roy (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Marshall Eubanks (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Peter Beckman (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Crist Clark (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Nick Hilliard (Jan 05)
- Re: Leap second tonight Ben Scott (Jan 05)