[LEAPSECS] No leapseconds on trains

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Thu Nov 17 06:59:12 EST 2011


Poul-Henning Kamp said:

>>> (Unix and ANSI-C format).



> Doing that, it is immediately obvious to even the causual observer,

> that the job of the parantheses is to settle any questions with

> respect to leapseconds by saying "Like UNIX, we don't have them".


But C does have them. Indeed, C90 allowed two in the same minute!

I agree with Paul; it's self-inconsistent.

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