Re: RFC 99 (v2) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Tim Jenness]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote:

> Leap-seconds are a PITA for generic time routines.
> 

Not really. They don't happen very often so you simply have a subroutine
that has them all (this is how SLALIB does it). The pain is that you have
to release a new version of perl each time a new leap second is added :-)

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Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
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