"Dotan Barak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I noticed that the documentation of the utility "date" say that the
> seconds (%S) can be from 0 to 60.
> When i tried it i noticed that 59 is the maximum value which is being printed.

$ TZ=right/UTC date -d '2005-12-31 23:59:60'
Sat Dec 31 23:59:60 UTC 2005

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second>

Andreas.

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