Hi Matthew, Thanks for the link. Actually, I had no idea that there is such a thing as leap seconds until Devon mentioned it.
I'm lucky enough that I won't have to worry or code around it. Although IE's in our factories are usually anal-retentive about minutes ... there is such a thing as learning curves and efficiency. r/Alex -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Brand Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:14 AM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Extending dates.ijs I'm sure every one has already read it by now, but the wikipedia entry on leap seconds is interesting. Some stuff there I did not know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second 2009/9/10 Devon McCormick <[email protected]>: > I'm not sure as the news reports I've seen usually talk only about the year > being one second longer. Since this is a clock adjustment, it's possible > the extra second is not considered part of any minute or hour. There's been > serious talk in recent years about doing away with these adjustments - I > think they're mainly of interest to astronomers, at least in the short term. > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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? >> ... >> >> -- >> Raul >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- The risk is socialized, the profit is privatized. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
