In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >We manage to deal with months containing 28, 29, 30, and 31 days. >The great majority of months (4497/4800) aren't even denumerable with >the length of our week. Why then is a requirement that one minute >out of 800,000 accommodate one extra (or one fewer) second seen to be >such an imposition?
Be cause we only get 15 million seconds of advance notice. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
