Re: Y2K

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Jun 1998 01:31:09 GMT

Followup to: <03b601bd9f68$7f489400$0901a8c0@uke.ad-hoc.gainesville.fl.us>
By author: "Marsh Ray" <marsh_lin@ad-hoc.gainesville.fl.us>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I saw that too, and I thought, "WOW!" a minute that
> has _two_ leap seconds!
>
> No, really, isn't that in error? A normal minute
> would have seconds numbered 0-59, a minute with a
> leap second would go 0-60, why does tm_sec need
> to go to 61?
>
> glibc-2.0.6/time/strptime.c seems to accept seconds
> from 0 to 61 as well.
>

This is a bug in some old standard. And yes, it is a bug. The second
range in a minute with a leap second is:

0 <= second < 61

-hpa

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