Jamie Wilkinson <j...@spacepants.org> writes: > On 1 April 2010 16:56, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote: >> Nick Andrew <n...@nick-andrew.net> writes: >>> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:39:00PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: >>> >>>> If it was my call, I would probably do the same thing. Way too many >>>> developers get simple things like "this day has no 2:30AM" or "this day has >>>> two 2:00AMs" wrong. >>> >>> That's why Daylight Savings is fundamentally evil. Too much time data is >>> stored in non-canonical formats. >> >> ...but the real question is if we love or hate the GMT/UTC difference, and >> 23:59:61? > > *cough* :60 *cough*
Well, I am glad someone was on the ball enough to notice that. ;) IIRC, :61 is actually a possible but extremely unlikely time value, to account for two leap-second adjustments required in a year, but a quick look around suggests that memory was wrong. So, :60 it is. [...] >> (And, finally, for anyone who really wants to despair at the whole thing, >> I give you "The Long, Painful History of Time", which is the best write-up >> I know of about the engineering difficulties of the topic: >> http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html >> ) > > I for one am glad such pages exist. I wish the inventors of time_t had read > it. I wish that an awful lot of people had spent an awful lot more time looking at what other systems around them were doing, so that I didn't have this terrible feeling that we are finally dragging our system up to the 1980s for the second or third time. Ah, well. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
