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From: MRC@PANDA.PANDA.COM (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: clocks
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Date: 4 Jan 88 00:16:11 GMT
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This business of leap seconds makes me wonder.  The last I read about times
on the network, the entire issue of leap seconds was ignored; RFC 868 simply
says "the number of seconds since 00:00 1 January 1900".  None of the examples
indicate any leap seconds (but were they any before May 1983?).  So, what are
the time servers returning, the 32-bit value with leap seconds or without
them?  I hope it's the latter!
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