F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

Tue Jul 3 17:11:23 UTC 2012

On Jul 3, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:

> On (2012-07-03 10:33 -0400), valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> 
>> On the other hand, how many subtle bugs will we introduce when we break
>> code that currently assumes the system clock is UTC, not TAI?
> 
> Progress has non zero cost :)
> 
> -- 
>  ++ytti

Trading one known set of bugs for a (probably) larger set of unknown bugs is not my definition of progress. Cost without progress is harmful and should be avoided.

Owen