Re: Annotations on K&R II

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From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 13:10

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jamie@csd.uwo.ca (J. Blustein) writes:
>     p. 255                 tm_sec: there can be as many as 2 leap seconds
>                         
>     p. 257                 %S: there can  be as many as 2 leap seconds
>                         
More precisely:  the C standards committee misunderstood the international
time standards and allowed for two leap seconds in the same minute.
There _can_ be two leap seconds in the same _year_, but
not in the same _minute_.

I've not yet had the good fortune to come across a C implementation that
bothers with leap seconds (if I've understood POSIX.1, a UNIX implementation
_mustn't_ get leap seconds right), so it's not that much of a problem.

-- 
Result of state election = 50% Victorians didn't get MP of their choice.
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.

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