In message <20120702025355.ga22...@puck.nether.net>, "Majdi S. Abbas" writes: >On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:24:33AM +1000, Jim Palfreyman wrote:
> Understand that yesterday's situation was specific to one >operating system, which accepted a patch to its kernel a few years ago >that was never really tested. [...] > I don't want to see anyone hurt, but pandering to bad software >just gets you more bad software. At some point quality has to matter. Testing software for correct handling of leap-seconds is a major undertaking which very few people have the kit and skill to do. You can get better quality either by paying a lot more money for software or by removing or reducing the impact of this "gottcha" feature from the programs environment. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
