Comment by wello

4 days ago

The resolution doesn't actually mention leap hours, just that the delta is allowed to grow up to one hour. What should happen then is to be decided by future generations.

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Timwi  3 days ago

Surely by then we'll have the technology to simply adjust the Earth's rotation so that it conforms to our standards.

A century later we'll finally be able to fix Earth's orbit to make a nice round 360 days per year, 12 months of 30 days, nice and clean, no more complexity or confusion... ah, that'll be the day.

elcritch  4 days ago

Reminds me of the old "book the meeting on Feb 31" trick to avoid an unwanted meeting.

  • somat  4 days ago

    Heh, I save periodic events as intervals in the database. The upside is it handles weird things like this surprisingly robustly, the downside is that months are months past the start of the year and days are days past the start of the month, yes every thing is zero based. I like it, I feel like I am rebelling against a broken system, but have to make sure I do a conversion to one based months and days for everyone else. Time of day and years are fine, time is already zero based and nobody cares about seeing a year 0.

    So the example given Feb-31 is stored as 1 month + 30 days past the start of the year and would trigger right on time march 2nd or 3rd, depending on leap year. In fact I started doing it to handle birthdays on leap day, there is not always a February 29, but there is always a day 29 days after the start of February.