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From:Monty, James T Date:Wed Oct  1 10:51:49 2008
Subject:RE: I'd tell you how long it'll take for my hair to fall out but I'm struggling with duration!
Zefram wrote:
>Kristian Flint wrote:
>>definitely a fixed number of seconds in a day
>
>Leap seconds. DateTime doesn't really do them correctly -- actually its
>time scale is a bit schizophrenic at the sub-second level -- but it
does
>represent leap seconds that it knows about.  So some days, about one in
>500, have 86401 seconds.

Please explain this. I've always thought DateTime *does* handle leap
seconds correctly.

If the DateTime library doesn't handle leap seconds correctly, then I
need to know so I can stop telling others it does. I'm misrepresenting
it.

-- 
Jim Monty
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