Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 15:26:14 -0700

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> David Woodhouse <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>>During a leap second, won't tm_sec be 60?
> 
> You could rather have two 59th seconds. Or the "seconds" could be, say,
> 0.1% longer for 1000 s. Depends on synchronization mechanism.
>  
> I think 60th second could only be possible with leap-seconds aware
> things (NTP, GPS, reference radio clocks etc.).
> 

It is, but you can't assume you don't have that.  Either way, you just 
treat it the same as the following second.

	-hpa