[LEAPSECS] Reliability

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jan 5 11:44:45 EST 2009


In message <421FB837-F23F-4A16-B6F4-F26D1C58C6FA at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>It seems very unlikely that leap day will move from February. People

>are fond of February. Also, a leap day at the end of December would

>be December 32nd :-)


Which would break incredibly badly thought out filsystem formats
like FAT which encodes the day-of-month in five bits.

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