[racket] find-seconds, second : (integer-in 0 61)

I do not believe that anything that ships with Racket will ever
produce those, but should you write something for yourself, the data
structure it ships with will do just fine storing the dates.

Jay

2011/6/3 Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff at knauth.org>:
> Just curious.  The contact for find-seconds parameter second (integer-in 0
> 61) instead of (integer-in 0 59). [1]
> The Java definition of a Date [2] states "the values 60 and 61 occur only
> for leap seconds and even then only in Java implementations that actually
> track leap seconds correctly," which made me wonder if the values 60 or 61
> were actually used by Racket.  According to [3], we've had one leap second
> at the end of 2005 and 2008.  Does any PLT Scheme or Racket code actually
> track or use those leap seconds?  I guess if I were using Racket to fire
> reverse thrusters for re-entry on the space shuttle, I might want to know,
> since the shuttle moves along at six miles per second.
> Geoff
> [1] Reference:Racket § 14.6 Time
> [2] http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Date.html
> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
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