In <[email protected]>, on 06/14/2015
at 12:13 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
>Leap seconds are irrelevant.
No. They're irrelevant if you just do the arithmetic yourself, but
they're highly relevant when you use a clock conversion routine that
takes them into account.
>The TOD clock is ignorant of leap seconds.
K3wl. How does that help if you use a clock conversion routine that
*is* sensitive to them. To say nothing of clock steering.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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