On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:17:27 GMT Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:14:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Maas, > see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted > someone who said : > > >- Stick to astronomical time, which is absolutely consistent but > > which drifts from legal time? > > depends what you are measuring. IF you are doing astronomy, your > advice would apply. If you are doing payrolls, you want effectively to > pretend the leap seconds never happened, just as Java does. Which leaves you about 30 seconds out by now - smelly. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirror Arrays The computer obeys and wins. | A better way to focus the sun You lose and Bill collects. | licences available see | http://www.sohara.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list