On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Sam Vilain wrote:
Why on earth would you want to encourage such a short sighted programming practise? The earth wobbles like a spinning top. In fact
It's hardly short sighted to want leap seconds to be abandoned (not in Perl but world wide). The few people who _really_ care about syncing to midnight can still have them, but the rest of the world would be just fine with a leap hour every couple hundred years.
synced, etc. Date modules (which, really, people should be using) then have something sensible to work with and can easily provide the alternate times. Environments that really can't guarantee an absolute epoch can simply return unanchored times and let the modules throw exceptions when you try to convert them to real times or times with impossible levels of accuracy.
Great, so now code that works in one environment throws a "cannot find an up-to-date leap seconds table" exception in another? Eek!
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