[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike S) writes:
> Programmers cause programming errors. Leap seconds may make them apparent.
>
> >Certainly the death (if it occurred) was not an automatic result of the
> >leapsecond, but rather was the result of something that broke because it
> >wasn't properly programmed to deal with the leapsecond.
>
> The counter argument is that removing leapseconds will break properly
> implemented systems in unknown ways, the blame will them be not with someone
> who did things in violation of a well documented specification, but with
> those who changed the specification in a fundamentally incompatible way for
> selfish reasons.
How does a properly implemented system accounting for leapseconds fail
when leapseconds fail to come? Sure there will be unnessesary code
that could be removed. But I do not see why the system would break.
--
Björn
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