Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: > > >>No. You cannot get 61. > > I was told it would be possible if two leap seconds were needed in some > point of time. Have never occured yet, and maybe never will. > > Well, it seems it would need two seconds a month (at least 13 leap seconds > a year) -> not in this century if ever, and it wouldn't be UTC anymore. > It's certainly not permitted by the current UTC definition, which only allows 4 leap seconds per year. 61 comes from a typo in an old version of the POSIX standard. >>You can, however, get jumps from 58 to 00. > > Correct, that would be a deletion. Not yet tried, either, but they say > it's possible. ... and permitted by the current UTC standard. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue May 03 10:42:40 2005
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