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- From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Leap Seconds
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.150854.887@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <BxKIHt.8t1@fsg.com> <bkheOs^U@twinsun.com>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:08:54 GMT
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- In article <bkheOs^U@twinsun.com>, eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
- |> onward@fsg.com (Onward Lam) writes:
- |>
- |> in ctime(3C):
- |>
- |> struct tm{
- |> int tm_sec; /* seconds after the minute - [0,61] */
- |>
- |> The `61' is a bug in the C Standard -- it's not possible to have two
- |> leap seconds in the same minute.
-
- Apparently it is. One of the items of K&R's official errata to Second
- Edition acknowledges that.
-
- Also, I understood that the insertion of leap seconds isn't predetermined
- for all time: the astronomical community calls for insertion (and deletion)
- as and when needed.
- --
- David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org
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