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arkiuat / proposed-addition-to-Instant.rakudoc

Last active December 9, 2025 20:13

proposed addition to Type/Instant.rakudoc addressing docs issue #3881

	=head1 Leap Seconds

	POSIX time (commonly called "Unix time") makes the incorrect assumption that
	the period of rotation of the Earth is a fixed constant. Since in fact the
	number of seconds that pass between one noon and the next varies from day to
	day, we must occasionally have a 61st second in the 60th minute of some hour;
	this is called a leap second, and happens at the same time all over the world,
	and therefore at different times of day in different timezones.

	POSIX deals with this by assigning the same integer label to two different

arkiuat / gist:7e169d8a106a919f50a21f8435604dda

Last active September 12, 2025 03:05

	my constant @lsmonth := <
	1972-06 1972-12 1973-12 1974-12 1975-12 1976-12 1977-12 1978-12 1979-12
	1981-06 1982-06 1983-06 1985-06 1987-12 1989-12 1990-12 1992-06 1993-06
	1994-06 1995-12 1997-06 1998-12 2005-12 2008-12 2012-06 2015-06 2016-12
	>;
	sub leap-sec( Int(Str) $year, Int(Str) $month --> DateTime ) {
	DateTime.new(
	date => Date.new($year, $month, 1).last-date-in-month,
	:23hour,
	:59minute,

arkiuat / gist:16268cd0a32ec08ecfac3c5da6f1aeef

Created July 31, 2025 16:54

color changes for Raku in NeoVim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

	highlight rakuComment ctermfg=Red guifg=Red
	highlight rakuVariable ctermfg=Green guifg=Green
	highlight rakuVarName ctermfg=Green guifg=Green
	highlight rakuType ctermfg=Blue guifg=Blue
	highlight rakuVarStorage ctermfg=Gray guifg=Gray