On 3/15/11 12:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:
At the nit-picking level, "day" (and "hour" and "minute") are not necessarily stable units either, because of the occasional appearance of leap seconds. While this won't be of much concern for many users, it can be important for precisely timed data.
well, not stable in the sense that you can add 24 * 60 * 60 seconds to a datetime and be guaranteed to get the same time the next day, but they are clearly and consistently defined, are they not?
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