On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Phil Hodge <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/14/2015 11:59 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> we have no way to know when there will be leap-seconds in the future
>>
>
> Leap seconds are announced about six months in advance.


exactly -- so more than six month, we have no idea.

and even within six months, then you'd need to update some sort of database
of leapseconds to get it.

So depending on what version of the DB someone was using, they'd get
different answers.

That could all get ugly :-(

-CHB



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