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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: The time 23:59:60
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.062205.27097@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 19 Jun 91 06:22:05 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.185953.26845@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <1991Jun17.185953.26845@zoo.toronto.edu>,
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> <6313530@mkist.ruhr.sub.org> unparsable Date: `10 Jun 91 18:60:58 MEST'
> The first is okay except for that "60".

Right.  However, on days when a leap second is inserted, the time
23:59:60 is valid.  I didn't spend long checking, but a brief glance at
C News getdate.y suggested that it will reject such times.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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