On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Fortunately, this is probably a non-issue for most of us because none of our > time sources can indicate a leap-second anyway. If you did have to deal > with it, it's traditionally been inserted at the end of the year.
Ok, but... does this "leap second" occur outside of any normal hours and minutes? Or does the last minute of the last hour of the day last for 61 seconds? (I would guess that, in any application which actually cares about leap seconds, "seconds" are the unit of time in which records are kept, and that intervals expressed in other units are largely meaningless, except for intervals between dates. And dates are probably represented as some number of seconds since some reference date and time. Such systems probably also rely on trusted external time references of some sort. In other words, I think this kind of work would be outside the scope of require'dates'.) -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
