Peter Simons
I was wondering: Does this calculation account for leap years? Does it have to?
C itself leaves unspecified the question whether its time calculations take leap seconds into account. All other systems I know of ignore leap seconds: POSIX C, Common Lisp, Java, .NET. The NTP protocol also ignores leap seconds, i.e. its time is supposed to slow down near the transition. While supporting leap seconds is "more correct", it makes interoperability harder: Haskell would have a different view than the rest of the system about either the current calendar time or seconds since the Epoch. Another problem is that leap seconds are not known further in advance than about half of a year, so programs compiled using different versions of Haskell would have slightly different views about the current time. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/