[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike S) writes: > Programmers cause programming errors. Leap seconds may make them apparent. > > >Certainly the death (if it occurred) was not an automatic result of the > >leapsecond, but rather was the result of something that broke because it > >wasn't properly programmed to deal with the leapsecond. > > The counter argument is that removing leapseconds will break properly > implemented systems in unknown ways, the blame will them be not with someone > who did things in violation of a well documented specification, but with > those who changed the specification in a fundamentally incompatible way for > selfish reasons.
How does a properly implemented system accounting for leapseconds fail when leapseconds fail to come? Sure there will be unnessesary code that could be removed. But I do not see why the system would break. -- Björn _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts