Re: Consensus rather than compromise
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:14:17AM -0400, John.Cowan wrote: > Because there is far too much code that believes, for example, that if > you add 86400 to a time_t representing 2005-12-31T00:00UTC, you get a > time_t representing 2006-01-31T00:00UTC. Or that if you have a And then your whole office would be saying "I can't believe it's almost February! It seems like only yesterday it was December." -- trey valenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] seattle, wash. "The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune."
Re: a failure caused by lack of leap seconds
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:46:16PM -0700, Steve Allen wrote: > Here's an interesting product note > http://www.motorola.com/ies/GPS/docs_pdf/notification_oncore.pdf Of course, the document has redefined the definition of UTC to Universal Time Coordinated, and I highly doubt the toll-free number for North America works for callers in Asia. Hopefully, those are the only two errors. -- trey valenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] seattle (maybe a) random quote--v WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL: Firings will continue until morale improves.
