[LEAPSECS] one second tolerance

[Michael Deckers]

    On 2011-02-09, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


>  In Denmark the law used to say that you have to suffix the

>  timestamp with 'A' and 'B' during these two hours.


    Interesting. That notation still seems to be legal, see
    [http://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=22064].
    In Germany, the law allows for a similar notation but
    does not require it.

    The notation is both more general (a separate token is applied
    before and after the discontinuity, this works not just at the
    end of a whole hour or minute), and potentially less confusing
    than the notation of ITU-R 460 with second field values >= 60.

    However, I have never seen that notation being applied in
    practice in Germany, not even by the PTB. Has it ever been
    used on a perceivable level in Denmark?

    Michael Deckers.