tags 8142 + notabug thanks Schaefer, Kevin L wrote: > I located a bug in the help page for the date command, which can be > accessed by typing "date --help". It says that the range for second > is (00..60), when it should probably be (00..59).
Thank you for your report. However this is not a bug. The range really is 0 through 60. Periodically a leap second is needed to be inserted and when that happens the seconds really are 60. Here is a reference for leap seconds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second Bob
