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Re: Need (today's date - 2 WORKING days) [was: Need (today's date + [1-7]]

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 21:23

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>You aren't referring to the switch from DST to GMT and vice-versa are you?
>(or whatever you switch from DST to/from)

The "hour's worth of seconds" refers to that.  The extra/fewer seconds
are "leap seconds", inserted every now and then (I don't have the latest
list handy, although it's buried in some mailing list somewhere).  Of
course, POSIX 1003.1 decreed that leap seconds shall not be honored,
so....

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