[Python-Dev] Vacation and possibly a new bug

Dave Barry dave@psax.org
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:51:01 -0700


Quothe Neal Norwitz <neal@metaslash.com>, on Tue, Jul 22, 2003:
> I don't know what ((365 * 24 + 6) * 3600) is supposed to represent.  
> 1 year + 6 hours in seconds.  What's that?

I know nothing about this code, but it would make sense to assume that
the extra + 6 hours was intended to account for leap years, 6 * 4 == 24
hours, or 1 extra day every 4 years.

Dave
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