From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 17:38:47 -0700 Message-ID: <4276C817.3090304@zytor.com> References: <42730061.5010106@zytor.com> <20050430125333.2bd81b18.froese@gmx.de> <1114859594.24014.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050430144936.6b05cc90.froese@gmx.de> <1114865964.24014.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4276A906.2040403@zytor.com> <4276B8A1.7070500@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Woodhouse , Edgar Toernig , Linus Torvalds , "Luck, Tony" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 03 02:36:44 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSlOY-0005hp-AV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 02:36:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261261AbVECAlC (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 20:41:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261277AbVECAlB (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 20:41:01 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:43454 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261261AbVECAjW (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 20:39:22 -0400 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-169-23-106.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.169.23.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j430cmfF017842 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 2 May 2005 17:38:49 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Krzysztof Halasa In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" 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