Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years2008-2009

[Alan Cox]

>        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I'm not sure what you are quoting from but it is out of date on the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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