A billing system that doesn't suck (or, Why Floating Point Numbers Are Bad)

tl;dr

> In any event, the print here does not print the correct number of seconds. Instead it prints ME CAGO EN LA LECHE, which I have discovered is Spanish for “I shit in the milk”.

Dear long-ago author... If you're going to write a programming post about potential bugs and unexpected pitfalls, do not lie to your readers about the "true behavior" in order to make an extremely lame joke.

This is doubly-true when you're talking about perl...