[Datetime-SIG] Calendar vs timespan calculations...

[Łukasz Rekucki]

On 2 August 2015 at 22:34, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 08/02/2015 01:26 PM, Łukasz Rekucki wrote:
>
>> Most times you need leap seconds, is to ignore them (as Tim described
>> in his trading stock example). Adding support to a single programming
>> language and fixing it every application, won't make the world better.
>> Instead, you can use UTC-SLS or do what Google did.
>
>
> You mean to shut down the markets around the time of the leap second?  Or
> risk other systems shut down for hours?

I didn't hear about *Google* shutting down for hours. I do believe the
leap second problem can be solved on a OS-level instead of having to
fix all applications in the world.


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Łukasz Rekucki