Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:43:30 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD handles leapsecond correctly Message-ID: <43B9AC92.2020400@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <80965.1136240851@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <80965.1136240851@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20060102221948.EBE475D09@ptavv.es.net>, "Kevin Oberman" writes: >>Leap years are an artifact of a lousy calendar that has origins over 2 >>millennia ago. Many calendars have been proposed which fix this, but >>calendar reform is simply not going to happen in our society, but leap >>years are a known, non-varying and trivially calculable issue. No magic >>and trivial to handle. > > Interestingly, the main reason why calendar reform is a no-talk > issue seems to be that The Vatican owns the standardization area > of calendars because they have written all (relevant) standards for > the area in the past. Didn't the EU come up with the Feb 24 -> Feb 29 leap day change? Anyway, the Vatican certainly hasn't produced all the standards for our calendar -- they may have owned the calendar recently, but before their days it was mangled by Roman emperors, and I believe that it originated about 4000 years before that, along the banks of the Nile. Colin Percival
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