In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>> Having a message from ntp.c that says there was a leap >> to HH:MM:60 implies that HH:MM:60 is a valid time as far >> as ntp.c's author is concerned. > >It is valid UTC time, not valid POSIX time, which are two different things. Well, it is a valid POSIX time, but it means a second later than desired in this case, because the 60 is taken as 60 seconds, and folded into a minute-roll-over. >> Having used unix since edition V, I am also aware of how unix >> systems count off seconds since the epoch 1/1/1970. But that >> really is immaterial to the discussion. No, that is actually the crux of the matter... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
