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"Every single one of those is a bug." The one place I know I've assumed a day is 86400 seconds I also assumed a month was 30 days and a year 365, because it on
by dllthomas 12y ago
"Every single one of those is a bug."
The one place I know I've assumed a day is 86400 seconds I also assumed a month was 30 days and a year 365, because it only needed to be an approximate gauge of how much time had passed, didn't need any relation to actual calendar time, and would be dropping far more precision elsewhere. I think it's incorrect to call that a bug, even a non-critical one.
- Twirrim 12y agoOn a related note, you'll find lots of cases where seconds are assumed to be 00-59 instead of 00-60. An understandable, but flawed, assumption, and one the leap second really messes up.
- onion2k 12y agoThat's fair. Bug is maybe a bit strong. I'd consider them potential bugs, although with cperciva's comment withstanding even that's probably too strong.