>> 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>
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