On 2 August 2015 at 22:34, Ethan Furman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/02/2015 01:26 PM, Łukasz Rekucki wrote: > >> Most times you need leap seconds, is to ignore them (as Tim described >> in his trading stock example). Adding support to a single programming >> language and fixing it every application, won't make the world better. >> Instead, you can use UTC-SLS or do what Google did. > > > You mean to shut down the markets around the time of the leap second? Or > risk other systems shut down for hours?
I didn't hear about *Google* shutting down for hours. I do believe the leap second problem can be solved on a OS-level instead of having to fix all applications in the world. -- Łukasz Rekucki _______________________________________________ Datetime-SIG mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/datetime-sig The PSF Code of Conduct applies to this mailing list: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
