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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The time 23: 59:60
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.160803.12939@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:08:03 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.185953.26845@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun19.062205.27097@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun19.062205.27097@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett) writes:
>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.

getdate.y was picked up from B News, and is obsolete and slowly being phased
out.  The thing to look at is the date routines in our libc directory.  It
looks to me like they don't like leap seconds; this was an oversight and
will be corrected.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry