On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 09:42 -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: > The Gregorian calendar doesn't mess up how computers keep track of > time, like leap seconds do. Neither do time zones. Leap seconds are > different -- a special kind of awful.
I don't regard leap seconds as being a special kind of awful. The
Gregorian calendar has February, which if it had been introduced in
1972 would have been regarded as "awful" for computers because it has a
variable length. Most computer software deals with February correctly
because it has been around longer than computers. The same is true of
time zones. Leap seconds, with its variable-length minutes, seems
worse only because it was introduced relatively recently.
John Sauter ([email protected])
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