From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 2 22:43:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D72B16A426 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:43:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF35843D49 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:43:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.23]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ISH00CJHLT4RIC0@l-daemon> for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:43:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ISH009QJLT4L220@pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:43:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.0.60] ([24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ISH00NS8LT32E70@l-daemon> for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:43:52 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:43:30 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <80965.1136240851@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-id: <43B9AC92.2020400@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 References: <80965.1136240851@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051228) Cc: Matthias Andree , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD handles leapsecond correctly X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:43:54 -0000 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