REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

[gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller)]

Yo Jay!

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Harlan Stenn" <stenn at ntp.org>
> 
> > > You misunderstand the problem. :) The problem is not "clock skips
> > > backward one second," because most of the time that's not what
> > > happens. The problem is that most software does not handle it well
> > > when the clock ticks ... :59 :60 :00 instead of ticking directly
> > > from
> > > :59 to :00.
> > 
> > POSIX NEVER shows :60.
> 
> Then I hope POSIX does not claim to represent UTC, because UTC does,
> no?

POSIX-1:2001 clearly 61 seeconds in a minute:

The POSIX-1:2001 docs are here:
    http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/time.h.html