[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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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