Nick Andrew <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:39:00PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> If it was my call, I would probably do the same thing. Way too many
>> developers get simple things like "this day has no 2:30AM" or "this day has
>> two 2:00AMs" wrong.
>
> That's why Daylight Savings is fundamentally evil. Too much time data is
> stored in non-canonical formats.
...but the real question is if we love or hate the GMT/UTC difference, and
23:59:61?
Daniel
Also, do we hate the earthquake that changed the length of the day for messing
with our time-keeping?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302084522.htm
(And, finally, for anyone who really wants to despair at the whole thing,
I give you "The Long, Painful History of Time", which is the best write-up
I know of about the engineering difficulties of the topic:
http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html
)
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