Time

[Peter Simons]

Keean Schupke writes:

 >> How would you implement it, given that gettimeofday()
 >> and other Unix calls which return the current time
 >> either gradually slow down near a leap second [...].

 > The computers timer should not attempt to adjust for leap
 > seconds...

I seem to recall reading somewhere that leap second inserts
are supposed to be represented as:

  23:59:59
  23:59:60
  00:00:00

Grated, that doesn't really help with calculating durations
accurately. ;-)

Peter