Zefram schreef: > Kristian Flint wrote: > >definitely a fixed number of seconds in a day > > Leap seconds. DateTime doesn't really do them correctly -- actually its > time scale is a bit schizophrenic at the sub-second level -- but it does > represent leap seconds that it knows about. So some days, about one in > 500, have 86401 seconds.
Even more importantly: about 1 in 365 days has 82800 seconds, and the same number has 90000 seconds, in most parts of the world (DST). Eugene
