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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?