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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:35:49 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com> Date: July 29, 2005 4:23:17 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Leap second fight brewing Reply-To: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com>Why stop at the leap second? Most programmers can't get the leap year day right, either -- so why not eliminate that as well?
Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February -- fun!, 'cuz it has twenty-eight, Except when it has twenty-nine, Except when it has twenty-eight, Except when it has twenty-nine.Or we could go back to twelve months of 30 days with a grand free-for- all at the end of the year while we await the next year's synchronization point.
Mary On 7/29/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: -----Original Message----- From: "Wulf Losee"<qx49 () comcast net > Sent: 7/29/05 10:23:15 AM To: "dave () farber net"<dave () farber net> Subject: Leap second fight brewing Dave: The US has secretly proposed abolishing the leap second (that is ocassionally added as the earth slows its rotation) claiming "safety" reasons. Evidently this is at the behest of special interests whose software is unable to deal with the additional second.From the WSJ online: "Word of the U.S. proposal, made secretly to a United
Nations body, began leaking to scientists earlier this month. The planwould simplify the world's timekeeping by making each day last exactly 24
hours."http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB112258962467199210- H9je4Nilal4o52nbYCIbq6Em4,00.html
--Wulf[Message truncated. Tap Edit->Mark for Download to get remaining portion.]
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