Re: Y2K

James H. Cloos Jr. (cloos@jhcloos.com)
24 Jun 1998 19:37:36 -0500


>>>>> "Marsh" == Marsh Ray <marsh_lin@ad-hoc.gainesville.fl.us> writes:

>> The date(1) manpage explicitly says that second (%S, and by
>> extension tm_sec) can run from 00 to 61.

Marsh> I saw that too, and I thought, "WOW!" a minute that has _two_
Marsh> leap seconds!

Marsh> No, really, isn't that in error?

AFAIK it is indeed for a minute w/ two leap seconds. Cf gnu.*
archives (prob in gnu.misc.discuss) for the exact reasoning; I
remember reading it, but forget the details. (Again, I do not
knw whether the online archives go back far enough....)

-JimC

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James H. Cloos, Jr.
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