[SLUG] Re: Time Pedantry

[Steve Allen <sla29970@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 6, 7:38 pm, Robert Collins <robe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/time.h.html
>
> "The range [0,60] seconds allows for positive or negative leap seconds.
> The formal definition of UTC does not permit double leap seconds, so all
> mention of double leap seconds has been removed, and the range shortened
> from the former [0,61] seconds seen in previous versions of POSIX.

but they still couldn't fix the Epoch Fail

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html