On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > -------- > 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/
Yea, good luck with that. Eliminating leap seconds would have a cost to some astronomers, spook and other folks that care about which way the earth is pointing. It would have a huge savings because it would restore the centuries old status-quo that all days had 86400 seconds enshrined in so many international standards like POSIX that make it difficult to get leap seconds correct in software. It's always the exception / edge case that's busted.... Cue the traditional reactionary response to this radical idea... Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
