In message <m3psnagxrb.fsf_at_merlin.emma.line.org>, Matthias Andree writes: >And tell me one reason why the leap second must be discontinued while >the leap day (Feb 29th) can be carried on. It's the same story, >irregular rollover, inserting one particular unit of time. You are clearly not thinking rationally here. I know already now that year 2048 will be a leap year, but I still don't know if there will be a leap second on june 30th 2006. >> None of them got it right by any strech of the imagination because >> it is impossible to get it right and be POSIX compliance. > >Wow, and you claim FreeBSD handles it correctly. Yes, FreeBSD handles it correctly under the impossible constraints of POSIX. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Mon Jan 02 2006 - 19:53:46 UTC
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