Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:40:58 +0000 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
> UTC equivalent to conversion on the naive basis that leap seconds are ignored and all
> years divisible by 4 are leap years. This value is not the same as the actual number of
> seconds between the time and the Epoch, because of leap seconds and because clocks are not
> required to be synchronized to a standard reference.
I'm not sure what you are quoting from but it is out of date on the
subject of leap years.
The rest looks right.
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