John Sauter wrote: >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.
There's a big difference between these two: February varies in a fixed, regular manner, whereas UTC days are unpredictable. The Gregorian calendar is of the arithmetic variety, whereas UTC is an observational calendar. UTC is qualitatively more difficult to handle. -zefram _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
