[LEAPSECS] programmer frustration with time

[Warner Losh]

On Dec 31, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Steve Allen wrote:


> 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.


At 2:45 has the best advise anybody has given about time...

This is absolutely brilliant... "This is a tangled mess of spaghetti code that somehow works out.."

The International Astronomical Union figures out leap seconds? I thought it was IERS...

Warner