Hal Murray said: > How many contracts worry about seconds? Ones to deal with electronic trading, domain name registration, and such topics.
> I think it's common for contracts to start one minute before or after > midnight to avoid an English language ambiguity. Things like "midnight > Monday" might be the midnight at the start of Monday or the midnight at the > end of Monday so contracts usually use 00:01 or 23:59. A bit of googling > found a web page describing that, but I don't know what they teach in law > schools. They didn't suggest it on my law course. I found a law case (sorry, no cite) that was decided on a matter of 8 seconds - from memory, an email sent 8 seconds after a midnight deadline. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: cl...@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
