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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] silly question
Date: Tue,  2 Sep 2014 21:50:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140902215053.Horde.Ajvc1qAreH0gSqu6LYJmDw6@ssl.eumx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14dad84410389f1daea3b71e632cb980@ladd.quanstro.net>

Quoting erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:


> correct.  plan 9 does not bother with leap seconds.


seconds(1) "handles" leap seconds in that it will not crash
when it encounters them -- it accepts that sometimes there
are 61 seconds in a minute.

khm





  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-02 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-02  7:07 Steve Simon
2014-09-02  8:27 ` lucio
2014-09-02  8:46 ` arnold
2014-09-02  9:40   ` Jens Staal
2014-09-02 14:07     ` arnold
2014-09-02 14:22   ` Steve Simon
2014-09-02 14:29     ` arnold
2014-09-02 17:02 ` erik quanstrom
2014-09-02 18:18   ` Steve Simon
2014-09-02 19:10     ` erik quanstrom
2014-09-02 20:04       ` Bakul Shah
2014-09-02 21:05         ` erik quanstrom
2014-09-02 21:50           ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2014-09-02 23:00             ` erik quanstrom
2014-09-02 23:04               ` Bakul Shah
2014-09-02 23:19                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-09-02 23:29                   ` Bakul Shah
2014-09-02 21:10         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-09-02 21:14           ` Steve Simon
2014-09-02 21:27           ` Bakul Shah
2014-09-02 21:43             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-09-02 18:36 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-09-02 19:18   ` Steve Simon
2014-09-02 23:34 sl

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