From: michael@kjorling.se (Michael Kjörling)
Subject: [TUHS] Leap Second
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 23:19:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161223231935.GW20777@yeono.kjorling.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1612240952310.43538@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On 24 Dec 2016 10:08 +1100, from dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
> Let me be the first to say that the International Earth Rotation Service
> has announced that there will be a Leap Second inserted at 23:59:59 UTC on
> the 31st December,
I told a coworker about leap seconds the other day, in the middle of
discussing software that doesn't understand 24:00:00 as a time of day.
For a while, I believe he thought that I was pulling a prank on him.
--
Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se
“People who think they know everything really annoy
those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-23 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-23 23:08 Dave Horsfall
2016-12-23 23:19 ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2016-12-24 1:33 ` Charles Anthony
2016-12-28 23:59 Dave Horsfall
2016-12-29 0:21 ` Peter Jeremy
2017-01-03 10:44 ` sds
2017-01-03 15:06 ` Tony Finch
2017-01-03 15:29 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 13:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 23:13 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-05 14:29 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 15:54 ` sds
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