From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Leap Seconds
Date: 30 May 2001 18:16:56 -0500
Date: 2001-05-30T18:16:56-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <twWnMlOYFebM@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9f3fmc$o0f$1@nh.pace.co.uk
In article <9f3fmc$o0f$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:
> Tucker Taft seems to indicate that there isn't anything in the standard or
> the validation suite to check for leap second computations. I'm inclined to
> believe him. Counting seconds in Ada.Real_Time has more to do with relative
> time computations than with dates, etc. It seems unlikely that the standard
> could require dealing with leap-seconds when there are very few systems (in
> the overall scheme of things) that would have up-to-date information about
> leap-seconds.
It would be as bad as a computer system that attempts to predict
daylight savings time, which changes at the will of legislatures.
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-25 14:17 Leap Seconds Marin David Condic
2001-05-25 22:02 ` Tucker Taft
2001-05-29 14:43 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-29 16:02 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-29 16:46 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-29 18:38 ` tmoran
2001-05-29 19:26 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 18:20 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-05-30 18:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 23:16 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2001-05-31 6:34 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
2001-05-31 9:27 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-05-31 15:31 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 7:55 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-06-01 13:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 15:24 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-01 16:18 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 20:28 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-04 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-04 16:05 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-04 16:15 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31 16:53 ` OT: Relativity misunderstood Wes Groleau
2001-05-31 17:20 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-31 19:00 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-01 6:49 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-06-04 17:51 ` [OT] Black holes for interstellar travel (Re: OT: Relativity misunderstood) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-06-05 14:07 ` Wes Groleau
2001-05-30 0:42 ` Leap Seconds Arthur Evans Jr
2001-05-30 10:14 ` AG
2001-05-30 11:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-31 16:34 ` Wes Groleau
2001-05-30 14:00 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 15:33 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-30 15:39 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31 2:01 ` Robert A Duff
2001-05-31 3:15 ` dale
2001-05-31 7:02 ` tmoran
2001-05-31 15:26 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31 16:39 ` Paul Storm
2001-06-02 6:40 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
2001-05-31 16:36 ` Wes Groleau
2001-05-31 18:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-30 16:36 ` Darren New
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