On 24 Dec 2016 10:08 +1100, from dave(a)horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
Let me be the first to say that the International
Earth Rotation Service
has announced that there will be a Leap Second inserted at 23:59:59 UTC on
the 31st December,
I told a coworker about leap seconds the other day, in the middle of
discussing software that doesn't understand 24:00:00 as a time of day.
For a while, I believe he thought that I was pulling a prank on him.
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Michael Kjörling •
https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se
“People who think they know everything really annoy
those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)