From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] silly question
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 16:29:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140902232929.2C34EB827@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:19:59 EDT." <f1355196009f20dbbf2442e0a7ea43ae@ladd.quanstro.net>
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:19:59 EDT erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > I was mistaken. Turns out neither do Unix systems handle
> > leapseconds. Now if only ITU punts on leapseconds in 2015, we
> > can let some future generation worry about leap minutes or
> > hours! Sorry for the noise.
>
> or we can give up on noon being a particular solar time. this would
> free us from timezones, dst and other complications. just kidding ... maybe.
The wikipedia entry on leap second is quite instructive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-02 23:29 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
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 [this message]
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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