On (2012-07-03 12:46 -0700), Owen DeLong wrote: > If you don't know that time is not monotonically increasing, then that only > becomes a software bug when you codify your own ignorance into software you > write.
If only all software could be ordered from you Owen, but in practice this is not possible. Some code will be written less intelligent people. And reviewing any code doing foo = timestamp+offset and if now > foo, virtually never expects time to move backwards. UTC doesn't move backwards (it goes 59 -> 60 -> 00). TAI does not move backwards. Unixtime moves backwards, like spanish inquisition no one expects that. > It is well known that leap seconds exist. Quite. But it is not well known that unixtime travels backwards. -- ++ytti
