[Qt-interest] [OT] Re: New Date and Time Features in Qt5?

[Atlant Schmidt]

Oliver:

> Ha! That's typical software engineers! Instead of
> fixing the REAL problem - earth rotation! - they
> do crude workarounds, which complicate matters
> even more!

  People *ALWAYS* expect the software engineers
  to deliver work-arounds to problems with the
  hardware -- why would this be any different? ;-)

  Don't worry; the mice will have it all fixed
  in Earth 2.0.

                           Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Till Oliver Knoll
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 17:09
To: Qt Interest List
Subject: [Qt-interest] [OT] Re: New Date and Time Features in Qt5?

Am 13.05.11 23:15, schrieb Konrad Rosenbaum:
> ...
> From time to time leap seconds are inserted into time. Regularly, because
> earth does not spin exactly once in 24 hours. It is slightly slower.

Ha! That's typical software engineers! Instead of fixing the REAL
problem - earth rotation! - they do crude workarounds, which complicate
matters even more!

;)

Happy coding!
  Oliver

p.s. Sorry if I stole some valuable time from you by making you read
this post - but the good thing is you can "gain" those seconds again, by
travelling westwards (or was it eastwards? Or was that the daytime
savings thingy? Ahhhh... ;)
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