Re^4: Leap second coming up. Check your date handling code

[FreeBeerReekingMonk]

Yes, But isn't it nice that 24 hours are actually made up of three 8 hour blocks. (and 8 is... well, a digital number, like 8 bits). And so you have 1/3 sleep, 1/3 work and 1/3 leisure time? ( where sleeping is false, working is true, and leisure is undef )

[perldigious]

Wait, don't you mean 0.333333333333333333...? :-)

Apparently leisure is a word of French origin for a reason. Of course that presumably makes their fractions 1/3 sleep, 7/24 work, and 3/8 leisure. Sacre bleu!

Total tangent, an old friend of mine knows a bit of French, and has recently been trying to learn Russian. He described French to me as, "A language that leaves native English speakers desperately searching for consonant sounds that aren't there," and Russian as, "A language that leaves native English speakers desperately searching for vowel sounds that aren't there." Don't know if that's an original line of his or someone else he is quoting, but it made me chuckle none the less.