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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: WWS vs. The Naval Observatory Clock
Message-ID: <1753@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 91 03:25:34 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.205944.23322@mdivax1.uucp>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <1991Jan4.205944.23322@mdivax1.uucp>,  says:

> The second was added at Midnight UTC, Universal Coordinated Time.
> So none of the North America "Happy New Years" coincided with the
> extra second.

So what happens to the tm struct verses seconds since epoch?
If my vague recollection serves correctly, we've added 5-6 seconds.
mktime() programs should be off by about 5-6 seconds from the date/time
that is correct, as the calculation would slip the leap-seconds.  
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