In the previous blog entry I wrote about various problems that can happen when nuances in time handling are not considered. Somebody may think: “Well, this all happens so rarely – millenium, leap seconds. Software I develop doesn’t move anywhere …

Timing issues are not studied in universities. While you study computer science, you somehow think about time in terms of comparing execution time of different algorithms, but time itself doesn’t bother you too much. These problems strike you unexpectedly when …