Ashley Yakeley writes:
How do you intend to keep the leap second table up to date?
You could run an automated cron job (or whatever your OS uses for these purposes) and update it automatically from http://cr.yp.to/libtai/leapsecs.txt. Or, if your OS supports the mechanisms described in http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo.htm#S-ALGO-KERNEL, leap seconds will be announced to the OS by the Network Time Protocol daemon. Or one could argue that this problem is beyond the scope of a "programming language" and that the users are on their own. I'm sure the vast majority of the population _will_ survive, even if their computer system misses a leap second. OK, maybe not the vast majority ... But what the heck, this planet is too crowded anyway. :-) Peter