> My pet peeve, though, is leap-seconds. Life would be a lot easier if you could rely on days always having 86400 seconds. Is this sarcasm? The only time I've

> My pet peeve, though, is leap-seconds. Life would be a lot easier if you could rely on days always having 86400 seconds. Is this sarcasm? The only time I've ever noticed leap seconds was the story about a bug in the Linux kernel's handling of them.