Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 21:59:36 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: Kenta Suzumoto <kentas@hush.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD sleep Message-ID: <CAHu1Y71hY=utT-d4_-B-zuf=W3d_hHPCbM1CkuN8X7Sra_m0_A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51A541B5.3010905@gmail.com> References: <20130528230140.A5B396F448@smtp.hushmail.com> <51A541B5.3010905@gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom <jrisom@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. Still, a truly correct clock, set to UTC, might someday read 23:59:59 23:59:60 23:59:61 00:00:00 How many seconds did that hour have?
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