Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] X.509: Handle midnight alternative notation in GeneralizedTime

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Feb 03 2016 - 11:26:03 EST


One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pedantic hat on 24:00:01 is also potentially valid. The ANSI and ISO
> standards allow for double leap seconds even though CCIR-460 doesn't
> allow it to actually happen.

As far as I can tell without actually buying a copy of ISO 8601, that standard
only allows for a single leap second in a day.

I grant that that doesn't mean that other standards may permit multiple leap
seconds.

David