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F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?



Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
>
> Well, yeah, it's not obvious that a minute can have anywhere between 59 and
> 62 seconds.

No a minute cannot have 62 seconds. That is an old documentation bug which
has been fixed.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/time.h.html

Tony.
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