[Sussex] I might like to become a SLUG
Stephen Williams
sdp.williams at btinternet.com
Wed Mar 16 09:40:47 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 00:03 +0000, Geoffrey J Teale wrote:
> Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> writes:
>
> > [1]
> > While testing I did see a 32nd day of the month. I got caught by the
> > leap-second problem because I was using midnight as my time in each day,
> > and that cause the calculation to barf once.
>
> Ah... that old chestnut. Date calculations are notorious for the
> number of ways there are to screw it up.
and humans do it as well as computers!
>
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