On 7/2/2012 10:24 AM, Peter Eckel wrote: > > ... and leap seconds are not even scarce. An event on an unpredictable schedule averaging 1.7 years since 1972 doesn't count as "scarce"? That's the answer to Les's outrage, too, by the way. Might as well expect the JRE to have code to deal with cosmic ray damage that gets by ECC, too.