Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harlan Stenn" <stenn () ntp org>

> > You misunderstand the problem. :) The problem is not "clock skips
> > backward one second," because most of the time that's not what
> > happens. The problem is that most software does not handle it well
> > when the clock ticks ... :59 :60 :00 instead of ticking directly
> > from
> > :59 to :00.
>
> POSIX NEVER shows :60.

Then I hope POSIX does not claim to represent UTC, because UTC does, no?

(IE: somewhere between "a bit" and "a lot" more expansion was called for
there; most of us don't have ntp.org email addresses.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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