Then it won't work most of the time, will it? It's only useful if you want to make a calculation in December spanning the next end of the month. It won't help you if you want to calculate what's 8 days, 12 hour, 39 minutes and 17 seconds past noon on Christmas, and you want to have the answer on Thanksgivings day. Or if you want to know what time it was 50,000 seconds ago in the morning of January 1.

There have been 23 leap seconds since 1972. For Date::Calc style calculations, you need to know all of them. At any moment. Just knowing whether there will be one at the end of the current month won't do.

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In reply to Re^6: Leap Second by Perl Mouse
in thread Leap Second by esskar

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