On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:19:59 EDT erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was mistaken. Turns out neither do Unix systems handle > > leapseconds. Now if only ITU punts on leapseconds in 2015, we > > can let some future generation worry about leap minutes or > > hours! Sorry for the noise. > > or we can give up on noon being a particular solar time. this would > free us from timezones, dst and other complications. just kidding ... maybe.
The wikipedia entry on leap second is quite instructive.
