From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:19:59 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140902230443.0A3E9B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <346c54679a6cdc9bb557724d8b93bbc6@quintile.net> <6e2a7a02201fcf3ea5d0d894d0d16916@ladd.quanstro.net> <20140902200400.81EAAB827@mail.bitblocks.com> <14dad84410389f1daea3b71e632cb980@ladd.quanstro.net> <20140902215053.Horde.Ajvc1qAreH0gSqu6LYJmDw6@ssl.eumx.net> <20140902230443.0A3E9B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] silly question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15245e2c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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. - erik