[WikiEN-l] Not so broken after all, perhaps

[Philip Newton]

On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:55:36 -0500, Dan Collins wrote:

> Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> > On 31 Dec 2006 at 17:54, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I suppose we could use {{CURRENTSECOND}} to transclude 1 of 60
> >> sub-templates, which in turn contain something around 200 #ifexist:
> >> statements to transclude the various AfD sub-pages.
> > 
> > This will fail on the occasions when a leap second is inserted, as 
> > this is the 61st second of its minute.
> > 
> Which is a whole once every 4 years, IIRC

You do not RC.

Leap seconds are inserted when required, and since the earth's rotation
time changes irregularly, they can't be predicted much in advance.

So there could be one year or ten between insertions, for example.

--Ph.