- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:49:22 -0500
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Phillips, Addison scripsit: > > It's essential that this be rewritten to take leap seconds into > > account, as they say, early and often. > > Well, once or sometimes twice a year in certain years :-). Current provisions allow for a leap second at the end of any month, actually, and by the year 158421, we'll have to have a whole hour worth of leap seconds every day. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Lope de Vega: "It wonders me I can speak at all. Some caitiff rogue did rudely yerk me on the knob, wherefrom my wits yet wander." An Englishman: "Ay, belike a filchman to the nab'll leave you crank for a spell." --Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia
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