Re: Leap seconds only in UTC time zone?

[Mike Schilli]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Mike Schilli wrote:

From the DateTime documentation, I would have thought that leap seconds apply

to all time zones (except floating ones), but the following code

   use DateTime;

   for my $time_zone (qw(UTC America/Los_Angeles)) {
       my $now = DateTime->new(
           year      => 1972,
           month     => 12,
           day       => 31,
           hour      => 23,

Argh, please disregard this one. Setting the hour to 15 according to the time
difference will fix it of course. Sorry!

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
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           minute    => 59,
           second    => 0,
           time_zone => $time_zone
       );

       my $later = $now->clone()->add( seconds => 60 );
       print "$time_zone: ", $later->datetime(), "\n";
   }

prints

   UTC: 1972-12-31T23:59:60
   America/Los_Angeles: 1973-01-01T00:00:00

and seems to suggest that you get the leap second only in UTC. Is this correct?

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
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