[LEAPSECS] operational time -- What's in a name?

[Greg Hennessy]

> although naive math is, well, naive, more code exists that assumes,

> for example, that midnight it time_t % 86400 == 0 than you want to

> believe.  Changing this is really bad karma.


The current situation is that code like your example does not accurately
reflect reality. I advocate changing the code. You advocate changing reality.


> Fuck the telescopes software.  it is order of magnitudes less common

> than anything else as to be irrelevant than things like ntp.


Attitudes like fuck certain people's software don't seem useful to me.


> Leap seconds are evil and must die. 


That is an opinion that not everyone shares.