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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Updates to K&R 2
Message-ID: <10360@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Jun 89 11:35:20 GMT
References: <4392e156.19050@apollo.COM> <1110@osf.OSF.ORG>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1110@osf.OSF.ORG> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
>I thought that only one leap second would be added at a time (only one
>per minute, at any rate).  Shouldn't these be (0,60), then?

It may well be that (0,60) is always sufficient, but the standard allows
for (0,61).  X3J11 received conflicting information about this.  We
settled on (0,61) as being a sufficiently large range to accommodate the
number of seconds no matter what the situation actually turned out to be.