From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 17:38:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4276C817.3090304@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38y2xdubr.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>
>>No. You cannot get 61.
>
> I was told it would be possible if two leap seconds were needed in some
> point of time. Have never occured yet, and maybe never will.
>
> Well, it seems it would need two seconds a month (at least 13 leap seconds
> a year) -> not in this century if ever, and it wouldn't be UTC anymore.
>
It's certainly not permitted by the current UTC definition, which only
allows 4 leap seconds per year. 61 comes from a typo in an old version
of the POSIX standard.
>>You can, however, get jumps from 58 to 00.
>
> Correct, that would be a deletion. Not yet tried, either, but they say
> it's possible.
... and permitted by the current UTC standard.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-03 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-30 3:44 Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE Luck, Tony
2005-04-30 3:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-30 4:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-30 4:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-30 4:32 ` Russ Allbery
2005-04-30 8:02 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-30 10:40 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 18:10 ` Russ Allbery
2005-04-30 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-30 21:59 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-04-30 22:54 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-01 16:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-01 16:57 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-01 17:23 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 5:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-30 10:53 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 11:13 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-30 12:08 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-30 12:13 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-30 12:49 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 12:59 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-30 13:22 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-05-02 22:10 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-02 22:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-02 23:30 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-02 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-03 0:30 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-03 0:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-30 23:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-30 4:50 ` Edgar Toernig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-30 5:28 Luck, Tony
2005-04-30 23:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-29 23:14 tony.luck
2005-04-29 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-30 0:21 ` tony.luck
2005-04-30 3:23 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 3:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
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