Not a stupid question...it's the central question here. Unix time is set up to allow programmers to assume every day has the same number of seconds. Is this th

Not a stupid question...it's the central question here. Unix time is set up to allow programmers to assume every day has the same number of seconds. Is this the best approach, or would it have been better to try to educate everyone not to make that assumption and to use a standard library for all UTC calendaring?