[LEAPSECS] programmer frustration with time

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Tue Dec 31 10:50:52 EST 2013


Arther David Olson just posted this to the tz mail list
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

It is a rant about handling time in computer applications.
It starts off with time zones, but from 06:43 it is leap seconds,
and the epilog about Google leap smear starts at 09:15.
But the last sentence is the one that speaks most to this mail list.

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