Maybe leap seconds won't be an issue: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leap_second_poll.html
Alan Leap seconds are a PITA. I'd like to reflect your question to IBM: What customers' business needs was IBM addressing in choosing to run the TOD clock on IAT (minus ten seconds), rather than on UT1 which would avoid the discontinuities of leap seconds. While IBM is ahead of the crowd in recognizing leap seconds, the implementation is lackadaisical. An enthusiastically faithful implementation would, when TIME was called in the middle of a leap second, return 23:59:60.500, the correct UTC. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
