In message <4D066C24-4B37-466B-8D8E-E51A7F59D1B1_at_semantic.org>, Ashley Yakeley
writes:
>On Jan 6, 2007, at 11:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> B. i) Issue leapseconds with at least twenty times longer
>> notice.
>
>This plan might not be so good from a software engineering point of
>view. Inevitably software authors would hard-code the known table,
>and then the software would fail ten years later with the first
>unexpected leap second.
Ten years later is a heck of a log more acceptable than 7 months later.
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Received on Sat Jan 06 2007 - 13:59:24 PST