> > It's been a while... Can you remind me why we will need to continue > to pretend that there are 86400 SI seconds in a day, past the time > when there are actually 86401 (or more)? >
Why is because there is a semi-infinite number of existing lines of code, right now in use, that calculate the day from the second and visa-versa using, d = t / 86400 t = d * 86400 they do this for reasons of a) expediency b) interoperability, and c) conformance to POSIX v3. -paul _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
