> but we're techies and it's in our nature to obsess over details like this
Speak for yourself! Part of good engineering is knowing when over-engineered perfection is useless. The inventors of UTC/leap seconds did not, and made a serious mistake the rest of us have had to live with.
Speak for yourself! Part of good engineering is knowing when over-engineered perfection is useless. The inventors of UTC/leap seconds did not, and made a serious mistake the rest of us have had to live with.