Re^3: Leap second coming up. Check your date handling code

Huh, I learned something today. Kudos, and despite the handy even division by the first 6 natural numbers, metric time still sounds pretty appealing to me if we had jumped on it a lot sooner in human history (pre-industrial revolution would have been nice). Our current physical measurement definitions for so many units being based on seconds having to be changed would be a massive shock to the ~~system~~ Système Internationale. I don't mind floats, but I don't want to get in to a pointed argument... :-)

Mmm, delicious nostalgia.

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Re^4: Leap second coming up. Check your date handling code by FreeBeerReekingMonk (Deacon) on Jan 05, 2017 at 23:05 UTC
Yes, But isn't it nice that 24 hours are actually made up of three 8 hour blocks. (and 8 is... well, a digital number, like 8 bits). And so you have 1/3 sleep, 1/3 work and 1/3 leisure time? ( where sleeping is false, working is true, and leisure is undef )	[reply]
Re^5: Leap second coming up. Check your date handling code by perldigious (Priest) on Jan 06, 2017 at 14:09 UTC
Wait, don't you mean 0.333333333333333333...? :-) Apparently leisure is a word of French origin for a reason. Of course that presumably makes their fractions 1/3 sleep, 7/24 work, and 3/8 leisure. Sacre bleu! Total tangent, an old friend of mine knows a bit of French, and has recently been trying to learn Russian. He described French to me as, "A language that leaves native English speakers desperately searching for consonant sounds that aren't there," and Russian as, "A language that leaves native English speakers desperately searching for vowel sounds that aren't there." Don't know if that's an original line of his or someone else he is quoting, but it made me chuckle none the less. Just another Perl hooker - Yes, I'll do really dirty code, but I charge extra.	[reply]