Y2.01700000003171K... Very roughly rounded of course... In fact so roughly rounded that using that exact decimal year value for a second it would lead to over 3 minutes of time slip each year.

Does anybody else wish we didn't have such an odd time keeping system and instead had something more base 10 like for everything? Not that the Earth's rotation still wouldn't slow and that we wouldn't have to adjust, just something I often wish was true similar to what I wish anytime I have to work in English units (American Exceptionalism indeed). Why couldn't God have created the world in 10 days and spent every other day resting, or maybe just been a prolific procrastinator? I tell you it's like the workaholics in the office that make everybody else look bad for having a life outside of work. :-)

On a tangentially related note, thanks to Christmas Eve and Christmas both falling on Saturday and Sunday my company gave all us salaried folk one less paid holiday off day this year than is typical. That just makes me feel like spending an entire day posting unproductive stuff like this on PerlMonks, but I'm obviously not one of those workaholics, though I admit I used to be at the beginning of my career before I came to the sad realization that being Boxer from Animal Farm isn't who I wanted to be (so much unpaid overtime I'm never getting back, sigh).

Just another Perl hooker - Yes, I'll do really dirty code, but I charge extra.

In reply to Re: Leap second coming up. Check your date handling code by perldigious
in thread Leap second coming up. Check your date handling code by 1nickt

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