[LEAPSECS] No leapseconds on trains

[Paul J. Ste. Marie]

On 11/17/2011 7:10 AM,  Poul-Henning Kamp allegedly wrote:

> Well, same situation as UNIX, Windows and pretty much any other

> operating system in the world.


Mainframe OS's (MVS, etc) handle leapseconds perfectly well.  The system 
clock counts true seconds (actually some fraction thereof) and the time 
formatting routines apply the leap seconds when converting to hours & 
minutes.

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         --Paul