[LEAPSECS] Meeting with Wayne Whyte

[Clive D.W. Feather]

michael.deckers said:

>>  However, this suggestion of increasing the limit of DUT1 should

>>  go hand in hand with another change made in Rec. 460.  The original

>>  draft of 460 which was presented to the CCIR Plenary Assembly

>>  suggested that the leaps should be full seconds or "integral

>>  multiples thereof".

>

>    Very interesting, thanks! The "double leap second" resurfaced

>    in the ISO standard for C in 1989.


However, this (and its adoption by reference into Posix) was due to a
misunderstanding by the people in WG14 at the time. When I fully understood
what was going on, I got WG14 to fix the C Standard (and, again by
reference, Posix) to only allow 61 seconds per minute at most.

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