Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 2005-05-03 08:26:14
Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
> 
>>During a leap second, won't tm_sec be 60?
> 
> You could rather have two 59th seconds. Or the "seconds" could be, say,
> 0.1% longer for 1000 s. Depends on synchronization mechanism.
>  
> I think 60th second could only be possible with leap-seconds aware
> things (NTP, GPS, reference radio clocks etc.).
> 

It is, but you can't assume you don't have that.  Either way, you just 
treat it the same as the following second.

	-hpa
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