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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Seconds from 19xx to Date (and visa versa)
Message-ID: <8810@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 Oct 88 06:25:30 GMT
References: <5522@hoptoad.uucp> <10030@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <8788@smoke.BRL.MIL> <916@vsi.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <916@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>"Doug, why does a time_t range from 0 through 61?"

It's not time_t, but rather the number of seconds in a struct tm's
tm_sec member.

The answer is, there was one magic moment in history when TWO leap
seconds were added to the same minute.

I told you you didn't really want to know.