Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> ...
> Some of us have been trying to drive this point though for some time:
>
> 99.99% of all programmers have no idea what a leap-second is.
> ...
The Java Date class documentation does, at least, show reasonable
awareness of leap seconds:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Date.html
Pity those of us who've been reading this list a little too long
can pick a few minor holes but it's basically reasonable stuff -
much better than ignoring leap seconds.
Ed Davies.
Received on Thu Dec 08 2005 - 12:24:09 PST