In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes: >On Thu 2011-06-02T21:39:13 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>> It is a good and instructive example of how leap seconds makes life >> more difficult for programmers. > >Much of that math, the 4-transforms, the gravitational potential >expansions, the time ephemeris, the ionization delay, depends on >somebody's estimate of what is, in effect, weather in the universe at >large. I suspect a lot of those "somebody" have "phd." after their names, 99.99% or more of the worlds programmers do not. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
