On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Clive D.W. Feather wrote: > michael.deckers said: > > > > Very interesting, thanks! The "double leap second" resurfaced > > in the ISO standard for C in 1989. > > However, this (and its adoption by reference into Posix) was due to a > misunderstanding by the people in WG14 at the time. When I fully understood > what was going on, I got WG14 to fix the C Standard (and, again by > reference, Posix) to only allow 61 seconds per minute at most.
I wondered if it dated back further, perhaps to the /usr/group standard. I don't have my copy of the BSD SCCS repository to hand, but the 4.3-Tahoe manual (dating from 1987-8 ish) still says seconds go from 0-59. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND: NORTH BACKING WEST OR NORTHWEST, 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 LATER IN HUMBER AND THAMES. MODERATE OR ROUGH. RAIN THEN FAIR. GOOD. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
