Leap seconds increment a seconds counter (or a surrogate for one).
The appropriate conversion routine then produces a Gregorian date or
the like from this value.

Never, never try to increment or decrement a calendar date
programmatically: that way madness lies.  Conceptial confusion lies
there too: there is no xx.xx.60 UTC

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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