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Ed Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: The Java Date class documentation does, at least, show reasonable
: awareness of leap seconds:
:
: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Date.html
:
: Pity those of us who've been reading this list a little too long
: can pick a few minor holes but it's basically reasonable stuff -
: much better than ignoring leap seconds.
>> * A second is represented by an integer from 0 to 61; the
>> values 60 and 61 occur only for leap seconds and even then only
>> in Java implementations that actually track leap seconds
>> correctly. Because of the manner in which leap seconds are
>> currently introduced, it is extremely unlikely that two leap
>> seconds will occur in the same minute, but this specification
>> follows the date and time conventions for ISO C.
-------------------------------------------------^^^^^
Followed by:
>> The values 60 and 61 can only occur on those Java Virtual
>> Machines that take leap seconds into account.
So they adopted the broken ISO C definitions, but made them optional :-(.
Warner
