lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1998]   [Jun]   [24]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: Y2K
From
Date
>>>>> "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
--
James H. Cloos, Jr.
<cloos@jhcloos.com>


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:43    [from the cache]
©2003-2011 Jasper Spaans