[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Mon Feb 21 14:14:55 EST 2011


On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Greg Hennessy wrote:


> Lets also take a show of hands, would abolishing leap years make timekeeping

> more or less complex?


More! It took three and a half centuries to adopt the Gregorian correction...
Imagine having to deal with a tz database for calendars...

Tony.
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