On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:15:08AM +0000, David Harper wrote: > > When even Sun Microsystems can make this kind of mistake, with all of > the resources at its disposal, Joe or Jane Programmer working for a > small company can be forgiven for not being familiar with the arcane > world of leap seconds. There are, after all, only 102 of us on this > mailing list :-)
If it were not for two things: Me as a kid listening to WWV for *hours* over my grandfather's shortwave radio (yeah, I was a weird kid... makes for a weird adult, too.) and me happening to fall into a job in interplanetary missions, I'd be blissfully ignorant of the leap seconds issue, too! -- Randy Kaelber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scientific Software Engineer Mars Space Flight Facility, Department of Geological Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
