BSD sleep

[Arthur Chance]

On 05/29/13 05:59, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> You think it's trivial until you read this:
>>
>> http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-**
>> programmers-believe-about-time<http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time>
>>
>>
> Some days have 86400 seconds, some have 86401.  There is a provision for
> two leap seconds to be applied at once, but that hasn't ever happened.

A little pedantic nitpick: no there isn't, that was caused by an initial 
misreading of the definition of leap seconds. There *can* be two leap 
seconds in a year (which is what caused the confusion), but if that 
happens one will be at the end of June and the other at the end of 
December, they'll not happen together.

Theoretically it's possible to have a negative leap second, but as that 
would require the Earth's core to collapse enough to spin it faster or a 
hit from a massive impactor, I'd rather not be around to see it. :-}


-- 
In the dungeons of Mordor, Sauron bred Orcs with LOLcats to create a
new race of servants. Called Uruk-Oh-Hai in the Black Speech, they
were cruel and delighted in torturing spelling and grammar.

		_Lord of the Rings 2.0, the Web Edition_