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In message <[email protected]>, John Sauter
writes:
>Google says in the blog that they did the smearing to avoid the need to
>review all of their time-sensitive code. Those of us who love leap
>seconds need to spend the next 10 years doing that code review, and the
>necessary testing and bug fixing to get everything working in the
>presence of leap seconds.
>
>We also need to fix operating systems and subroutine libraries so that
>when application programmers, who don't care about leap seconds, write
>their code it will "just work".
Let us know when you are done:
http://bgr.com/2015/09/18/size-of-google-source-code-lines/
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