People intentionally throw information away, for certain purposes, even when the information is not totally expunged. For example, when a baseball batter ends his at-bat, the information about the number of strikes and balls becomes irrelevant; all that matters, as far as the outcome of the game is concerned, is if the batter was out, got on base, or scored a home run. But some other information about the at-bat is retained to determine how fatigued the pitcher is likely to be, or determining the batter's batting average.
Similarly, for many legal purposes, a day is a day is a day; time of day is of no concern except to demarcate one day from the next. But sometimes duration in days, hours, minutes, and seconds matter (for example, when determining the pay of an hourly worker). So sometimes programmers have to ignore daylight saving time leaps; in other situations they have to account for them. Rules exist for this, although one might have to get a law degree to understand the rules. Rules for deciding when to count leap seconds and when to ignore them are not fully developed; it's entirely understandable that programmers have trouble programming in an environment where there is no universal agreement on the rules. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
