Re: Error with the leap year

[email protected] (Dave Rolsky)
Newsgroups perl.datetime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> Date math is not commutative and this leads to all sorts of problem.  They
> cannot be dismissed as some silly authoritarian demand.

Indeed, it's not authoritarian. It's more like a nightmare inspired by the 
crack-addled madness of our calendar, plus the crystal meth inspired 
madness of DST changes, with a hint of LSD courtesy of leap seconds.

It's a bad fucking trip, and I've been on it for a long time.


-dave

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