Eugene van der Pijll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter J. Acklam schreef: > > > It is the IERS (http://www.iers.org) who decides when leap > > seconds are inserted. According to their page > > > > http://www.iers.org/iers/earth/rotation/utc/table1.html > > > > the first leap second after 1970 was the second before > > 1972-07-01 00:00:00 UTC. > > There cannot have been a leap second 1971-12-31T23:59:60, as the > leap second system was only introduced on 1972-01-01, together > with UTC.
Yes, but I didn't say that 1971-12-31T23:59:60 was a leap second, so why argue against it? :-) The first leap second was the second before 1972-07-01 00:00:00 UTC. There were adjustments before that, but they were not leap seconds. Peter -- #!/local/bin/perl5 -wp -*- mode: cperl; coding: iso-8859-1; -*- # matlab comment stripper (strips comments from Matlab m-files) s/^((?:(?:[])}\w.]'+|[^'%])+|'[^'\n]*(?:''[^'\n]*)*')*).*/$1/x;
