From keld@dkuug.dk Thu Jun 11 10:57:54 1992
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 10:57:54 +0200
From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
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Subject: posix time specifications
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I have got the follwing message from Paul Eggert of Twinsun.
Please take this into consideration when producing the DIS.

> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 92 19:06:45 PDT
> From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
> Subject: Re: leap seconds (thanks)
> 
> >The POSIX.2 standard in its latest version actually allows for
> >seconds to be in the range 0..61, so I think you should allow 
> >this as leapseconds.  (POSIX.2 D11.3 p 380 line 4069).
> 
> That ``61'' is an error -- it's a bug in the C Standard,
> most likely caused by faulty communications between
> the U.S. Naval Observatory and the ANSI C committe.
> 
> The range should be ``0..60''.  Two leap seconds cannot occur in the
> same minute, according to the international time standard CCIR
> Recommendation 460-4 (1986).  (CCIR = International Radio Consultative
> Committee)
> 
> Where do I write to to get this fixed?  I don't have a copy of POSIX.2.

Hereby notified (Hal!).

Keld