On 1 April 2010 16:56, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
*cough* :60 *cough* > > 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 Yes. > (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 > ) I for one am glad such pages exist. I wish the inventors of time_t had read it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
